On Monday 28 May 2007, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 17:14 +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: > > > The -oldconfig1 is the kernel that had no problems and the other shows > > > the b44 problem. So if High Resolution Timer Support is disabled > > > everything works fine and if I enable it the problems do appear again. > > > > > > I didn't test this on my 2.6.22-rc3 kernel yet, but I guess disabling > > > High Resolution Timer Support will also solve the problem there. > > > > > > The older kernels I tried also work perfectly fine and they didn't have > > > the High Resolution Timer Support yet. > > > > So, that's interesting, indeed. > > Any idea what's going on, someone? Thomas? > > Not off the top of my head. > > Maximilian, does the kernel work otherwise (I mean aside of the b44 > driver) ? > > Can you please keep CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS and CONFIG_NOHZ and try the > following combinations on the kernel command line: > > 1) highres=off nohz=off (should be the same as your working config) > 2) highres=off > 3) nohz=off I tested this with my 2.6.22-rc3 kernel, here are the results: without any special boot parameters: problem does appear highres=off nohz=off: problem does not appear highres=off: problem does not appear nohz=off: problem does appear I additionally built my 2.6.22-rc2-mm1 kernel without High Resolution Timer, but the high ping problem is still there. Maxi
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