Peter, is my kernel configuration ok ? Or should I set some others options to no ?
Best regards, Antoine On 27/05/07, Peter Ganzhorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Why don't you use 2.6.21? With the tickless timers came a lot of problems which were fixed in the 2.6.21-rc* kernels. However, there are patches for kernel version prior to 2.6.21, so if you really cannot upgrade to 2.6.21 for some reason, you may want to try a patch for 2.6.20 from http://www.tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/2.6.20/ . The name tickless was introduced with 2.6.21, with this patch it's called dyntick - technically it's the same thing. On top of that you get high resolution timers, both were introduced in 2.6.21 together and developed together before. Using high resolution timers with tickless is recommended AFAIK, but I don't know too much about this. But as I said, prior to 2.6.21 this was kind of buggy and may result in kernel panics, freezes, ... Peter On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 12:04 +0200, Yuan Chao wrote: > On 5/27/07, Peter Ganzhorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You have to check if 'CONFIG_NO_HZ' is set to Y. > > Important: If you are using a kernel older than 2.6.21 this feature > Is there any patch back port to older version kernel, say 2.6.20? > > _______________________________________________ Power mailing list [email protected] http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
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