linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0 of 4] x86: some more patches

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Message-Id: <200801162235.11076.ak@suse.de>
Date:	Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:35:10 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...ell.com>,
	Glauber de Oliveira Costa <glommer@...il.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0 of 4] x86: some more patches

On Wednesday 16 January 2008 22:06:46 Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de> wrote:
> 
> > > truly stuck, or just an annoying message?
> > 
> > Just annoying message; system works after that for simple login etc. 
> > (haven't run anything complicated)
> 
> ok, if you see no other failures and if you have some time it would be 
> nice to figure out why that message is happening. Is NOHZ enabled 
> perhaps?

I updated now to latest git-x86 and the problem seems to have gone away.

But NO_HZ was enabled yes and the system also had a very unsynchronous
TSC (dual K8 opteron with cpufreq) 

Also I should say my patches were applied, but I didn't change
anything in this area.

-Andi

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