kernel_optimize_test/arch/i386
Thomas Gleixner ad62ca2bd8 [PATCH] i386: disable local apic timer via command line or dmi quirk
The local APIC timer stops to work in deeper C-States.  This is handled by
the ACPI code and a broadcast mechanism in the clockevents / tick managment
code.

Some systems do not expose the deeper C-States to the kernel, but switch
into deeper C-States behind the kernels back.  This delays the local apic
timer interrupts for ever and makes the systems unusable.

Add a command line option to disable the local apic timer and a dmi
quirk for known broken systems.

Andi sayeth:

  While not wrong by itself i think it is still better to use some heuristic
  -- like "has battery in ACPI" With the DMI table if the problem is more wide
  spread we will just continue extending it.

  But anyways should be ok now for .21 although I'm not really happy with
  it.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Grudgingly-acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-22 19:39:05 -07:00
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boot Use ARRAY_SIZE() macro in i386 relocs.c file 2007-02-17 19:10:01 +01:00
crypto [CRYPTO] api: Get rid of flags argument to setkey 2006-09-21 11:41:02 +10:00
kernel [PATCH] i386: disable local apic timer via command line or dmi quirk 2007-03-22 19:39:05 -07:00
lib {rd,wr}msr_on_cpu SMP=n optimization 2007-02-20 14:29:37 -05:00
mach-default [PATCH] clockevents: i386 drivers 2007-02-16 08:13:59 -08:00
mach-es7000 ACPICA: Remove duplicate table manager 2007-02-02 21:14:28 -05:00
mach-generic [PATCH] i386: make apic probe function non-init 2007-01-11 01:52:44 +01:00
mach-visws [PATCH] visws: sgivwfb as module needs exports 2006-12-08 08:29:07 -08:00
mach-voyager [PATCH] x86: fix PDA variables to work during boot 2007-01-22 19:39:36 -08:00
math-emu [PATCH] i386: avoid gcc extension 2007-02-13 13:26:24 +01:00
mm [PATCH] i386: Remove extern declaration from mm/discontig.c, put in header. 2007-02-13 13:26:26 +01:00
oprofile Replace remaining references to "driverfs" with "sysfs". 2007-02-17 19:13:42 +01:00
pci PCI: add systems for automatic breadth-first device sorting 2007-02-16 15:30:11 -08:00
power Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6 2006-12-07 08:59:11 -08:00
defconfig [PATCH] i386: Update defconfig 2007-03-16 21:07:36 +01:00
Kconfig [PATCH] Fix VMI and COMPAT_VDSO for 2.6.21 2007-03-12 16:33:51 -07:00
Kconfig.cpu [PATCH] i386: Remove unused kernel config option X86_XADD 2007-02-13 13:26:25 +01:00
Kconfig.debug [PATCH] i386: Paravirt debug defaults off 2007-02-13 13:26:22 +01:00
Makefile [PATCH] x86: add -freg-struct-return to CFLAGS 2007-02-26 12:53:30 -08:00
Makefile.cpu [PATCH] i386: Add support for compilation for Core2 2006-12-07 02:14:09 +01:00