Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 21:20 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 11:55 -0800, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > > > What kind of artificial problem are you creating here ?
> > >
> > > I'm not trying to create anything .. However, as I said before
> > > the /proc/interrupts "timer" entry doesn't work the same as it has in
> > > other kernels.
> > 
> > Yes, it is different. Why are you insisting, that something is a problem
> > just because it is different ?
> 
> In this case "different" goes into userspace .. So different could 
> mean userspace regression, which is something that we don't want. I 
> have no idea if any apps use /proc/interrupts , but it's possible 
> since it's been around for a long time.

Well, if you enable dynticks you should expect the number of timer irqs 
to go down. There's no problem here.

> The reason that I'm bringing it up at all is because people have ask 
> me "Why isn't my timer ticking??"

it's quite easy to explain: because of the new dynticks feature. Both 
'timer' and 'LOC' counts go way down.

> It might be nicer to list all the registered clock event sources in 
> /proc/interrupts, with more descriptive names ..

they are already listed in /proc/interrupts, depending on how they use 
interrupts. For a more complete list of in-use clockevent drivers see 
/proc/timer_info. But it would be wrong to touch /proc/interrupts to 
create some special-case for clockevents.

	Ingo