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* AMD64 X2 lost ticks on PM timer
@ 2006-02-27 21:22 bubshait
  2006-02-27 22:21 ` Bill Rugolsky Jr.
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 60+ messages in thread
From: bubshait @ 2006-02-27 21:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

I have been suffering from lost ticks for several months now ever since I 
switched to an X86_64 kernel with SMP. I have read previous posts about lost 
ticks due to TSC timer, but I have been having a different problem as I have 
only been using 2.6.14 and then 2.6.15 kernels and only PM timers. Also, this 
problem does not manifest itself immedietly, I could be using the system for 
anywhere from a few hours to a couple of days without any problems before I 
start losing ticks, but once it starts it would lose them constantly and my 
desktop becomes unstable (some apps crash, while other take 5 minutes to 
start up, this was what led me to discover the lost ticks) forcing me to 
reboot. The following error appears in dmesg at the time the system starts to 
act strange

	Losing some ticks... checking if CPU frequency changed.
	warning: many lost ticks.
	Your time source seems to be instable or some driver is hogging interupts
	rip __do_softirq+0x47/0xd1

adding report_lost_ticks only prints repeating messages like

	Lost 3 timer tick(s)! rip __do_softirq+0x47/0xd1

I have tried using acipmaintimer and acippmtimer, it would boot fine but I 
would notice the following in dmesg

	..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
	timer doesn't work through the IO-APIC - disabling NMI Watchdog!
	Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 3d.

And would still end up with lost ticks eventually. using acpi=off causes the 
entire system to come to a crawl (I am guessing this is due to the PM timer). 
For the life of me I can't seem to figure out what causes these lost ticks to 
start, but when they do the /proc/interrupts show a drop from roughly 1000 
interrupts/sec to around 700 and this persists until I reboot.

My hardware is an AMD64 X2 4800+ on an asus A8N-SLI.

Also, could I please be CC'ed to any replies. I don't mean to be rude by not 
subscribing but I couldn't handle the volume.

Thanks,
Abdulla Bubshait

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* RE: libata/sata_nv latency on NVIDIA CK804 [was Re: AMD64 X2 lost ticks on PM timer]
@ 2006-03-16  0:33 Allen Martin
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 60+ messages in thread
From: Allen Martin @ 2006-03-16  0:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jeff Garzik, Bill Rugolsky Jr.
  Cc: Ingo Molnar, Lee Revell, Andi Kleen, Jason Baron, linux-kernel,
	john stultz

> >>well, it's a PIO inb() op i think, and could thus in theory 
> trigger SMM 
> >>BIOS code.
> > 
> >  
> > Is there any easy way to disable more SMM stuff than "noacpi"?
> 
> It's unlikely you can disable SMM stuff even with noacpi...
> 

There should be no SMI traps on ATA BARs.  At least we don't put any in
our reference BIOS and I can't imagine why any of the BIOS vendors or
motherboard mfgs would add any.

-Allen

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2006-02-27 21:22 AMD64 X2 lost ticks on PM timer bubshait
2006-02-27 22:21 ` Bill Rugolsky Jr.
2006-02-27 22:47   ` Jason Baron
2006-02-28  7:41     ` Abdulla Bubshait
2006-02-28 22:00       ` Bill Rugolsky Jr.
2006-02-28 23:53         ` Andi Kleen
2006-03-01 14:46           ` Bill Rugolsky Jr.
2006-03-01 14:56             ` Andi Kleen
2006-03-01 15:43               ` Bill Rugolsky Jr.
2006-03-01 15:47                 ` Andi Kleen
2006-03-01 18:07                   ` Bill Rugolsky Jr.
2006-03-01 18:29                     ` Andi Kleen
2006-03-01 19:16                       ` Lee Revell
2006-03-03 19:18                         ` Bill Rugolsky Jr.
2006-03-03 21:26                           ` Lee Revell
2006-03-03 22:09                             ` Jeff Garzik
2006-03-03 23:43                               ` Bill Rugolsky Jr.
2006-03-03 23:46                                 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-03-03 23:49                                   ` Lee Revell
2006-03-04  0:08                                   ` Andi Kleen
2006-03-04  0:07                                 ` Andi Kleen
     [not found]                                   ` <20060315213638.GA17817@ti64.telemetry-investments.com>
2006-03-15 21:45                                     ` libata/sata_nv latency on NVIDIA CK804 [was Re: AMD64 X2 lost ticks on PM timer] Lee Revell
2006-03-15 21:58                                       ` Ingo Molnar
2006-03-15 22:00                                         ` Ingo Molnar
2006-03-15 22:25                                           ` Jeff Garzik
2006-03-16 15:13                                           ` Alan Cox
2006-03-16 16:57                                             ` Bill Rugolsky Jr.
2006-03-22 16:09                                               ` Andi Kleen
2006-03-22 18:39                                                 ` Bill Rugolsky Jr.
2006-03-22 23:07                                                 ` Bill Rugolsky Jr.
2006-03-15 22:22                                         ` Jeff Garzik
2006-03-15 22:24                                           ` Ingo Molnar
2006-03-15 22:36                                             ` Bill Rugolsky Jr.
2006-03-15 22:46                                               ` Ingo Molnar
2006-03-15 22:48                                               ` Jeff Garzik
2006-03-15 23:31                                                 ` Lee Revell
2006-03-15 21:50                                     ` Ingo Molnar
2006-03-15 22:11                                       ` Ingo Molnar
2006-03-15 22:33                                         ` Jeff Garzik
2006-03-15 22:44                                           ` Ingo Molnar
2006-03-15 22:50                                             ` Jeff Garzik
2006-03-15 23:14                                               ` Bill Rugolsky Jr.
2006-03-15 23:44                                                 ` Lee Revell
     [not found]                                                   ` <20060316002133.GE17817@ti64.telemetry-investments.com>
2006-03-16  0:48                                                     ` Long latencies with MD RAID 1 [was Re: libata/sata_nv latency on NVIDIA CK804 ] Lee Revell
2006-03-16  3:15                                                 ` libata/sata_nv latency on NVIDIA CK804 [was Re: AMD64 X2 lost ticks on PM timer] Bill Rugolsky Jr.
2006-03-16  4:20                                                   ` Lee Revell
2006-03-16  9:18                                                     ` Ingo Molnar
2006-03-16 14:42                                                     ` Gabor Gombas
2006-03-16  0:01                                               ` Lee Revell
2006-03-16  0:14                                                 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-03-15 22:30                                       ` Jeff Garzik
2006-03-15 22:36                                         ` Ingo Molnar
2006-03-15 22:04                                     ` [patch] latency-tracing-v2.6.16.patch Ingo Molnar
2006-03-15 22:32                                       ` Bill Rugolsky Jr.
2006-03-16  9:18                                         ` Ingo Molnar
2006-03-04 12:06                                 ` AMD64 X2 lost ticks on PM timer Martin Schlemmer
2006-03-05  7:07                                   ` Alexander Samad
2006-03-02 15:47                 ` Gabor Gombas
2006-02-28 21:17     ` Abdulla Bubshait
2006-03-16  0:33 libata/sata_nv latency on NVIDIA CK804 [was Re: AMD64 X2 lost ticks on PM timer] Allen Martin

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