On 09/10/2007 03:44 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
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>> Yes, it has an hpet. And I tried every combination of options I could
>> think of.
> 
>> But, even stranger, x86_64 works (only i386 fails.)
> 
> x86-64 has quite different time code (at least until the dyntick patches
> currently in mm) 
> 
> Obvious thing would be to diff the boot messages and see if anything
> jumps out (e.g. in interrupt routing).  
> 
> Or check with mm and if x86-64 is broken there too then it's likely
> the new time code.

This is Fedora 8 and it already has the highres-timers code in x86_64.
But I was still comparing 2.6.22 on i386 to 2.6.23-rc5-git1 + highres-timers
on x86_64. 2.6.23-rc5 on i386 seems okay too, so whatever is happening it
only occurs on 2.6.22 here.
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