On Monday 09 May 2005 12:53, Bernd Paysan wrote:
On Sunday 08 May 2005 15:40, Andi Kleen wrote:
Your system should be using the HPET timer to work exactly around this. AMD 8000 has HPET. Can you post a boot.log?
Ok, boot.log attached. The only entry with hpet seems to indicate some problems.
I went through the BIOS setup, and found a disabled feature "ACPI 2.0", which I enabled. Now Linux finds the HPET timer. # grep -i hpet boot.log ACPI: HPET (v001 A M I OEMHPET 0x04000518 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x00000000e8ff3c30 ACPI: HPET id: 0x102282a0 base: 0xfec01000 time.c: Using 14.318180 MHz HPET timer. time.c: Using HPET based timekeeping. hpet0: at MMIO 0xfec01000, IRQs 2, 8, 0 hpet0: 69ns tick, 3 32-bit timers hpet_acpi_add: no address or irqs in _CRS and everything appears to work (though there's still no designated CPU to handle the timer interrupts). xntpd syncs quickly, I'm happy (so far ;-). So that explains why nobody sees this problem. But the TSC-based fallback timekeeping is still broken on SMP systems with PowerNow and distributed IRQ handling, which both together seem to be rare enough ;-). -- Bernd Paysan "If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself" http://www.jwdt.com/~paysan/