Re: eventtimers hiccups

2010-12-24 Thread Alexander Motin
Hi, Stefan Farfeleder wrote: since the new eventtimers code was committed, my notebook (Dell Precision m4400) sometimes hangs for 10-30 seconds, mostly during load. In these periods I can move the mouse pointer but time (as perceived by time(1)) seems to be halted. This is accompanied by lots

eventtimers hiccups

2010-12-24 Thread Stefan Farfeleder
Hi, since the new eventtimers code was committed, my notebook (Dell Precision m4400) sometimes hangs for 10-30 seconds, mostly during load. In these periods I can move the mouse pointer but time (as perceived by time(1)) seems to be halted. This is accompanied by lots of calcru: runtime went

Re: eventtimers hiccups

2010-12-24 Thread Stefan Farfeleder
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 04:49:50PM +0200, Alexander Motin wrote: Have you tried to look on what happens with your HPET interrupts during the problem? Is it timer hardware/driver problem, or something else? Have you tried to use LAPIC timer? - it has no race window between start and

Re: eventtimers hiccups

2010-12-24 Thread Julian Elischer
On 12/24/10 6:31 AM, Stefan Farfeleder wrote: Hi, since the new eventtimers code was committed, my notebook (Dell Precision m4400) sometimes hangs for 10-30 seconds, mostly during load. In these periods I can move the mouse pointer but time (as perceived by time(1)) seems to be halted. This is

Re: eventtimers hiccups

2010-12-24 Thread Alexander Motin
Julian Elischer wrote: On 12/24/10 6:31 AM, Stefan Farfeleder wrote: since the new eventtimers code was committed, my notebook (Dell Precision m4400) sometimes hangs for 10-30 seconds, mostly during load. In these periods I can move the mouse pointer but time (as perceived by time(1)) seems