Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 15:02:17 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: recent kernel, microuptime went backwards Message-ID: <96419.969454937@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 20 Sep 2000 00:44:24 PDT." <XFMail.000920004424.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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In message <XFMail.000920004424.jhb@FreeBSD.org>, John Baldwin writes: >As for the micruptime() >messages on boot, they only occur here on a UP kernel. On an SMP kernel I >don't get them. Also, they always occur during mi_switch() when an interrupt >thread is finishing and going back to sleep. The first such thread to be run >to generate thet error message is the irq0: clk ithread, so the clk ithread is >running fine. The microuptime() messages occur because the timecounters expect the i8254 clock interrupt to run "hz" times per second, and it doesn't. In particular it doesn't during then 10-20 seconds we probe/attach devices. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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