linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.18 is problematic in VMware

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Date:	Thu, 2 Nov 2006 10:21:11 +0200
From:	"S.Çağlar Onur" <caglar@...dus.org.tr>
To:	Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>
Cc:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
	Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.18 is problematic in VMware

31 Eki 2006 Sal 16:06 tarihinde, Mark Lord şunları yazmıştı: 
> My experience with VMware on several recent processors (mostly P-M family)
> is that it crawls unless I force this first:
>       echo 1 > /sys/module/processor/parameters/max_cstate
>
> So I use a wrapper script around VMware (workstation) to save max_cstate,
> set it to 1, and restore it again on exit.

Hmm, this seems related to that one[1], without setting max_cstate my 
processors has some issues :)

[1] http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7376

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