Timekeeping gone whack in 6-CURRENT

[Jens Schweikhardt]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 12:53:34AM +0200, Chris Gilbert wrote:
# I've noticed since updating my machine from 5.3 to 6-CURRENT that the 
# timekeeping on the system goes out of sync very quickly.
# 
# After about a day, the clock is out of sync up to 12 hours!
# 
# This is strange as on 5.3/5.4 the timekeeping on my machine was much more 
# reasonable (+/- ~1 second a day)
# 
# Is there something with 6-CURRENT that needs to be configured to keep this 
# from going nuts?
# 
# If any other diagnostic information is needed please let me know!

This looks like the same problem mentioned in the thread with subject
"Timekeeping hosed by factor 3, high lapic[01] interrupt rates". See
there for what file/revision to backout. Currently there is no solution
known, but we're working on it.

Regards,

	Jens
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