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* 2.6.24 says "serial8250: too much work for irq4" a lot.
@ 2008-02-05 20:55 Rob Landley
  2008-02-05 21:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 17+ messages in thread
From: Rob Landley @ 2008-02-05 20:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

When running a 2.6.24 kernel built for x86-64 under qemu via serial console, 
doing CPU-intensive things that also produce a lot of output (such as 
compiling software) tends to produce the error message in the title.

Anybody have a clue why?  It doesn't seem to cause an actual problem, but it's 
kind of annoying.

(If it's a qemu issue, I can go bother them.  It's possible that qemu isn't 
delivering interrupts as often as it expects, since that's limited by the 
granularity of the host timer; I know the clock in qemu can run a bit slow 
because it only gets clock interrupts when the host system isn't too busy to 
schedule the emulator.  But this doesn't usually cause a problem.  I _think_ 
the message is just a "this should never happen" type warning, which is 
happening to me.  But I break stuff. :)

Rob
-- 
"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
  - Ken Thompson.

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2008-02-05 20:55 2.6.24 says "serial8250: too much work for irq4" a lot Rob Landley
2008-02-05 21:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-02-06  0:43   ` [Qemu-devel] " Rob Landley
2008-02-07 12:39   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-07 17:37     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-02-07 20:13       ` Rob Landley
2008-02-07 20:53         ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-02-07 21:19         ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-02-08  7:04           ` Rob Landley
2008-02-09  5:49           ` [Qemu-devel] " Rob Landley
2008-02-09  7:04             ` Blue Swirl
2008-02-09  7:12               ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-02-09 11:15                 ` Blue Swirl
2008-02-09 21:36                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-02-10  8:01                     ` Blue Swirl
2008-02-10 11:26                       ` Paul Brook
2008-03-11 23:51                         ` Aurelien Jarno

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