Re: [patch] clockevents: drivers for i386, fix #2

[Ingo Molnar]

* Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> None of the interrupts are doing anything wrong.  oprofile shows 
> nothing alarming.
> 
> Disabling cpufreq in config doesn't fix it.
> 
> Userspace can count to a billion in 3.9 seconds when this problem is 
> present, which is the same time as it takes on a non-slow kernel.
> 
> `sleep 5' takes 5 seconds.
> 
> Yet initscripts take a long time (especially applying the ipfilter 
> firewall rues for some reason), and `startx' takes a long time, etc.  
> This kernel takes 112 seconds to boot to a login prompt - other 
> kernels take 56 seconds (interesting ratio..)

hm, do you have the NMI watchdog enabled by any chance? [in particular, 
do you have nmi_watchdog=2?] Although your bootlog does not show it.

	Ingo
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