cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa clock.c

[Nate Lawson]

On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Mike Silbersack wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Mike Silbersack wrote:
> > Does this fix a bug with clock handling?  I ask because my system's clock
> > has been running fast recently, and I haven't had time to investigate why
> > that is occuring...
> >
> > Mike "Silby" Silbersack
>
> Hm, I just learned something interesting about my clock issue... good
> thing that I was saving dmesgs for warner:
>
> Nov 13, 2003:
> CPU: Mobile Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1.60GHz (1594.98-MHz 686-class CPU)
>
> Apr 10, 2004, with ACPI:
> CPU: Mobile Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1.60GHz (1556.71-MHz 686-class CPU)
>
> Apr 10, 2004, without ACPI:
> CPU: Mobile Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1.60GHz (1575.84-MHz 686-class CPU)
>
> today, without ACPI:
> CPU: Mobile Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1.60GHz (1575.84-MHz 686-class CPU)
>
> I also noticed this today from vmstat -i:
>
> interrupt                          total       rate
> irq0: clk                         746040        986
> irq8: rtc                          95484        126
>
> That should be 1000 & 128, if I'm not mistaken.  Are these all symptoms of
> some timing code during boot messing up?

boot -v and send the dmesg output including ACPI timer probe.

-Nate