On Monday 12 November 2012 09:12:18 Oddball wrote:
Op 12-11-12 08:04, Oliver Neukum schreef:
Am 11.11.2012 18:30, schrieb Oliver Neukum:
On Sunday 11 November 2012 13:31:18 Stefan Seyfried wrote:
That's just a diagnostic message. But why does it show up _sometimes_ ? Either the TSC is stable or it is not. Well, YOU are the kernel hacker, not me :-)
I'd guess that the old kernel for some reason did not use all available C-States or such, and the newer one has support for more of the chipset's features. Yes, it can be explained that a kernel version makes a difference. But I read the bug report to say that the problem shows up sometimes with the same kernel version and sometimes not. That would be
On Monday 12 November 2012 06:36:44 Stefan Seyfried wrote: problematic.
Oddball, could you clarify?
Regards Oliver
I can not say more. Sometimes the message shows. And sometimes it does not. I installed kernel 3.4.18-1-desktop i686 yesterday. This one does not show the message.
Does it make sense to reinstall kernel 3.7.0-rc4-4-desktop i686?
Hi Jiri, this phenomenon worries me a bit. It seems like the kernel under some circumstances fails to detect instability of the TSC. I am afraid that would do bad things to time keeping. What needs to be done? Regards Oliver -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org