Re: Timer unstability on when using C2 and deeper sleep states (Dell Latitude XT)

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To: Milan Plzik <milan.plzik@...>
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Date: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 - 4:17 pm

Milan Plzik <milan.plzik@gmail.com> writes:


This usually means it is using the wrong timer in a deeper idle state.
Some idle states cannot be woken up by e.g. the APIC timer and then
you get that effect: you only make progress when you wake up the 
CPU in some other way like pressing a key. Then on wake up the
timers get processed.

This is usually a bug in the kernel timer selection. It should be chosing
a timer that always wakes up from the deepest idle state used.

You should post the full boot log

-Andi

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Re: Timer unstability on when using C2 and deeper sleep stat..., Andi Kleen, (Wed Aug 13, 4:17 pm)
RE: Possible CPU_IDLE bug [WAS: Re: Timer unstability on whe..., Pallipadi, Venkatesh, (Wed Aug 13, 2:14 pm)
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