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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: kernel-stuff@comcast.net
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de
Subject: Re: X86_64: Many Lost ticks
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 06:06:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041118050624.GB1478@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <111820040402.18259.419C1EEE000EC75D00004753220075115000009A9B9CD3040A029D0A05@comcast.net>

On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 04:02:55AM +0000, kernel-stuff@comcast.net wrote:
> I have a X86_64 laptop (Compaq Presario R3240) with all BIOS updates in place. I routinely get the "Warning : many lost ticks" message in dmesg. 

Known problem.  ACPI uses a broken way to access the EC register,
and VIA chipsets take extremly long for this operation.  This
happens regularly to read the system temperature.
A fix is currently being discussed. 

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-18  5:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-18  4:02 X86_64: Many Lost ticks kernel-stuff
2004-11-18  5:06 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-11-18 15:54   ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-11-18  4:14 kernel-stuff
2004-11-18 17:02 kernel-stuff
2004-11-18 17:08 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-11-18 17:10 ` Alan Cox
2004-11-18 18:24   ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-11-18 18:50   ` Andi Kleen
2004-11-18 18:49 ` Andi Kleen
2004-11-19  1:56   ` kernel-stuff
2004-11-19 15:57     ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-11-20  0:17       ` kernel-stuff
2004-11-20  2:39     ` Alan Cox
2004-11-18 17:19 kernel-stuff
2004-11-18 19:03 kernel-stuff
2004-11-18 19:30 kernel-stuff
2004-11-19  8:19 Chuck Ebbert
2004-11-19 16:11 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-11-22 15:11 Chuck Ebbert

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