Hi! > > I briefly tested -dyntick5 on my thinkpad, and it seems to work > > okay... but timer still seems to tick at 250Hz. > > > ...am I doing something wrong? > > can you send me the bootlog and your .config file please ? ...attached. (I do not have to enable anything in sysfs/commandline to enable noidlehz, right?). On a related note, swapoff -a, echo disk > /sys/power/state is enough to kill the machine in timer_resume code with this patch applied. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html