Re: 2.5.72: wall-clock time advancing too rapidly?

john stultz (johnstul@us.ibm.com)
20 Jun 2003 11:09:12 -0700


On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 07:01, Wiktor Wodecki wrote:
> same here, time is running way too fast. Kernel 2.5.72-mm1, see attached
> config for config. The cpu is a Pentium III (Coppermine) wit speedstep
> enabled.

Speedstep and the lost-ticks compensation code in the TSC time source
are fighting. Booting w/ "clock=pit" will let you work around it, but
I'm working on trying to make it automatically fall back.

This is being tracked in Bug #827.
http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=827

thanks
-john

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