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Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, <mingo@...>
Date: Tuesday, February 6, 2007 - 7:15 pm

On Tuesday 06 February 2007 3:40 pm, Daniel Walker wrote:

Because there are two clock sources in the machine and it's using the other 
one, so the interrupt isn't firing?

Are you saying that the /proc statistics aren't accurate, or that you 
previously misunderstood what it was actually measuring and you'd now like it 
to lie?


I didn't think Thomas even touched the /proc/interrupts reporting code.  It's 
still accurate.  The patch changed the usage of timers, /proc/interrupts is 
accurately showing the change, and you're surprised that what it was 
measuring wasn't what you thought it was measuring all along.

This ain't jiffies.  This is how often the PIT fired.  They are not the same 
thing.

Rob
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2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Andrew Morton, (Tue Jan 30, 12:45 am)
[-mm patch] make gfs2_writepages() static, Adrian Bunk, (Tue Feb 6, 6:12 pm)
Re: [-mm patch] make gfs2_writepages() static, Steven Whitehouse, (Wed Feb 7, 6:50 am)
[-mm patch] drivers/scsi/aacraid/: cleanups, Adrian Bunk, (Tue Feb 6, 6:12 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Daniel Walker, (Tue Feb 6, 12:03 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Thomas Gleixner, (Tue Feb 6, 2:36 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Daniel Walker, (Tue Feb 6, 2:45 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Thomas Gleixner, (Tue Feb 6, 3:07 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Daniel Walker, (Tue Feb 6, 3:55 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Thomas Gleixner, (Tue Feb 6, 4:20 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Daniel Walker, (Tue Feb 6, 4:40 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Rob Landley, (Tue Feb 6, 7:15 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Daniel Walker, (Tue Feb 6, 7:28 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Rob Landley, (Tue Feb 6, 7:55 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Thomas Gleixner, (Tue Feb 6, 5:17 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Daniel Walker, (Tue Feb 6, 5:25 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Ingo Molnar, (Tue Feb 6, 4:52 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Daniel Walker, (Tue Feb 6, 4:56 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Ingo Molnar, (Tue Feb 6, 5:09 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Daniel Walker, (Tue Feb 6, 5:23 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Thomas Gleixner, (Tue Feb 6, 5:43 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Daniel Walker, (Tue Feb 6, 5:59 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Ingo Molnar, (Tue Feb 6, 5:41 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Daniel Walker, (Tue Feb 6, 5:54 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Thomas Gleixner, (Tue Feb 6, 6:13 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Ingo Molnar, (Tue Feb 6, 6:08 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Daniel Walker, (Tue Feb 6, 6:42 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Ingo Molnar, (Tue Feb 6, 6:56 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Daniel Walker, (Tue Feb 6, 7:04 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Ingo Molnar, (Tue Feb 6, 7:14 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Daniel Walker, (Tue Feb 6, 7:22 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Ingo Molnar, (Tue Feb 6, 7:37 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Thomas Gleixner, (Tue Feb 6, 7:36 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Daniel Walker, (Tue Feb 6, 9:12 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Thomas Gleixner, (Wed Feb 7, 10:53 am)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Ingo Molnar, (Tue Feb 6, 7:28 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Daniel Walker, (Tue Feb 6, 7:35 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Ingo Molnar, (Tue Feb 6, 7:51 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Daniel Walker, (Tue Feb 6, 10:46 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Thomas Gleixner, (Tue Feb 6, 7:44 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Ingo Molnar, (Tue Feb 6, 5:20 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Daniel Walker, (Fri Feb 2, 1:39 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Cedric Le Goater, (Thu Feb 1, 2:24 pm)
RE: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Starikovskiy, Alexey Y, (Thu Feb 1, 3:37 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Cedric Le Goater, (Thu Feb 1, 4:29 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Cedric Le Goater, (Thu Feb 1, 4:38 pm)
RE: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Starikovskiy, Alexey Y, (Fri Feb 2, 10:22 am)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Cedric Le Goater, (Fri Feb 2, 10:47 am)
RE: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Starikovskiy, Alexey Y, (Fri Feb 2, 10:50 am)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Cedric Le Goater, (Fri Feb 2, 12:04 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Cedric Le Goater, (Sat Feb 3, 3:30 am)
RE: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Starikovskiy, Alexey Y, (Sat Feb 3, 3:57 am)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Christoph Lameter, (Wed Jan 31, 8:14 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Andrew Morton, (Wed Jan 31, 8:24 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Christoph Lameter, (Wed Jan 31, 8:27 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Andrew Morton, (Wed Jan 31, 8:36 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, David Chinner, (Thu Feb 1, 2:20 am)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Andrew Morton, (Thu Feb 1, 3:12 am)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Christoph Lameter, (Thu Feb 1, 3:01 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Jens Axboe, (Thu Feb 1, 3:18 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, David Chinner, (Fri Feb 2, 12:08 am)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Jens Axboe, (Fri Feb 2, 3:31 am)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Christoph Lameter, (Thu Feb 1, 4:18 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Jens Axboe, (Thu Feb 1, 4:26 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Christoph Lameter, (Thu Feb 1, 7:02 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Jens Axboe, (Mon Feb 5, 8:02 am)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Jens Axboe, (Mon Feb 5, 8:17 am)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Jens Axboe, (Mon Feb 5, 8:56 am)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Christoph Lameter, (Mon Feb 5, 2:20 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Jens Axboe, (Mon Feb 5, 2:34 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Christoph Lameter, (Wed Jan 31, 8:38 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Mattia Dongili, (Wed Jan 31, 5:52 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Mattia Dongili, (Wed Jan 31, 7:21 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Thomas Gleixner, (Thu Feb 1, 3:36 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Mattia Dongili, (Thu Feb 1, 4:24 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Thomas Gleixner, (Thu Feb 1, 4:01 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Mattia Dongili, (Thu Feb 1, 5:37 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Mattia Dongili, (Thu Feb 1, 5:11 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Thomas Gleixner, (Thu Feb 1, 6:33 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Ingo Molnar, (Thu Feb 1, 3:04 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Maciej Rutecki, (Tue Jan 30, 6:18 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Tilman Schmidt, (Tue Jan 30, 9:16 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Andrew Morton, (Tue Jan 30, 9:25 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Tilman Schmidt, (Wed Jan 31, 7:38 am)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Alexey Starikovskiy, (Wed Jan 31, 8:29 am)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Tilman Schmidt, (Wed Jan 31, 2:28 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Maciej Rutecki, (Wed Jan 31, 12:02 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Andrew Morton, (Tue Jan 30, 6:27 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Maciej Rutecki, (Wed Jan 31, 7:54 am)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Len Brown, (Thu Feb 1, 12:10 am)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Andrew Morton, (Thu Feb 1, 12:17 am)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Karsten Wiese, (Tue Jan 30, 8:55 pm)
[PATCH -mm] gtod persistent clock resume fix, Thomas Gleixner, (Thu Feb 1, 9:03 am)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Ingo Molnar, (Wed Jan 31, 9:22 am)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Karsten Wiese, (Wed Jan 31, 10:25 am)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Ingo Molnar, (Thu Feb 1, 4:01 am)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Pavel Machek, (Fri Feb 2, 8:37 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Karsten Wiese, (Thu Feb 1, 6:44 am)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Karsten Wiese, (Thu Mar 1, 7:11 am)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Olivier Galibert, (Tue Jan 30, 5:06 am)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Andrew Morton, (Tue Jan 30, 5:26 am)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Len Brown, (Thu Feb 1, 12:25 am)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Len Brown, (Wed Jan 31, 3:57 am)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Olivier Galibert, (Tue Jan 30, 2:47 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Sunil Naidu, (Tue Jan 30, 4:16 am)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Andrew Morton, (Tue Jan 30, 4:32 am)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Jeff Garzik, (Tue Jan 30, 12:50 am)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Andrew Morton, (Tue Jan 30, 1:11 am)
Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3, Evgeniy Polyakov, (Tue Jan 30, 5:56 am)
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