Probably you want to apply the -hrt patchset to your kernels sources - it includes lots of timer related tweaks such as the force-hpet-patches for ICH chipsets. You can get it from http://www.tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/ .
Peter Kyle Cunningham wrote: > Hi All, > Is there a patch that applies cleanly to 2.6.22.x kernels to > force HPET on. I have an Intel ICH6 chipset and as far as > I know it should have this functionality but it isn't being > enabled by default. > > In addition I have a strange problem with an ethernet interrupt > which is being triggered even though it isn't connected to any > network. The ouput from powertop is below. > > > 35.9% ( 66.0) <interrupt> : extra timer interrupt > 23.2% ( 42.7) <interrupt> : eth0, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0000:00:02.0 > 11.3% ( 20.7) <interrupt> : libata > 5.4% ( 10.0) <interrupt> : Intel ICH6, ipw2200 > 5.3% ( 9.7) hald-addon-cpuf : cpufreq_governor_dbs > (delayed_work_timer_fn) > 4.0% ( 7.3) <interrupt> : acpi > 3.4% ( 6.3) kicker : schedule_timeout (process_timeout) > 2.0% ( 3.7) Xorg : do_setitimer (it_real_fn) > 1.1% ( 2.0) thunderbird-bin : futex_wait (hrtimer_wakeup) > 0.7% ( 1.3) Xorg : schedule_timeout (process_timeout) > 0.7% ( 1.3) wpa_supplicant : schedule_timeout (process_timeout) > 0.5% ( 1.0) kdesktop : schedule_timeout (process_timeout) > 0.5% ( 1.0) dhcdbd : schedule_timeout (process_timeout) > 0.5% ( 1.0) kwrapper : do_nanosleep (hrtimer_wakeup) > 0.5% ( 1.0) <kernel core> : neigh_table_init_no_netlink > (neigh_periodic_timer) > 0.5% ( 1.0) ifconfig : tg3_open (tg3_timer) > > If anyone has any ideas about these I would really appreciate the help. > > Cheers, > Kyle > > _______________________________________________ > Power mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power > > _______________________________________________ Power mailing list [email protected] http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
