Re: PROBLEM: tickless scheduling

[Donald Allen]

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 9:12 PM, john stultz <johnstul@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 20:59 -0400, Donald Allen wrote:
>> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:54 PM, john stultz <johnstul@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Donald Allen <donaldcallen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> 1. Network file transfers and fscks stop on Toshiba netbook unless
>> >> system receives external events
>> >
>> > Can you provide /proc/timer_list output?
>>
>> Attached, but again, this is from the system running with tickless disabled.
>
> Is it possible to boot with the kernel showing the issue and provide the
> details?

It's a minor pain, but I'll do it.

>
>
>> > I assume booting with nohz=off from grub resolves the issue?
>>
>> Didn't know about the boot-time option (thanks for pointing it out),
>> but I wanted to build a custom kernel anyway, so i did so and disabled
>> tickless.
>
> Ok. It may still be of value to know booting with nohz=off does avoid
> the problem.

Ok. When I've got the original kernel installed and bootable, I'll try
it. I won't be able to get to this for a day or so.

/Don

>
>
> thanks
> -john
>
>
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