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From: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arjan@infradead.org,
	s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk, kernel@kolivas.org, tytso@mit.edu,
	cfriesen@nortel.com, trenn@suse.de, george@mvista.com,
	johnstul@us.ibm.com, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Updated dynamic tick patches - Fix lost tick calculation in timer_pm.c
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 10:50:33 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050903052033.GC5098@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1125720301.4991.41.camel@mindpipe>

On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 12:05:00AM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> Are lost ticks really that common?  If so, any idea what's disabling

It becomes common with a patch like dynamic ticks, where we purposefully
skip ticks when CPU is idle. When the CPU wakes up, we have to regain
the lost/skipped ticks and thats where I ran into incorrect lost-tick
calculation issues.

> interrupts for so long (or if it's a hardware issue)?  And if not, it
> seems like you'd need an artificial way to simulate lost ticks in order
> to test this stuff.

Dyn-tick patch is enought to simulate these lost ticks!

-- 


Thanks and Regards,
Srivatsa Vaddagiri,
Linux Technology Center,
IBM Software Labs,
Bangalore, INDIA - 560017

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-09-03  5:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 96+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-31 16:58 Updated dynamic tick patches Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2005-08-31 17:12 ` [PATCH 1/3] Updated dynamic tick patches - Fix lost tick calculation in timer_pm.c Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2005-08-31 22:36   ` Zachary Amsden
2005-08-31 22:47     ` john stultz
2005-09-02 15:43   ` [PATCH 1/3] dynticks - implement no idle hz for x86 Con Kolivas
2005-09-02 15:45     ` [PATCH 2/3] dyntick - Fix lost tick calculation in timer pm.c Con Kolivas
2005-09-02 15:46       ` [PATCH 3/3] dyntick - Recover walltime upon wakeup Con Kolivas
2005-09-02 17:25       ` [PATCH 2/3] dyntick - Fix lost tick calculation in timer pm.c Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2005-09-02 20:18         ` Thomas Schlichter
2005-09-02 21:21           ` john stultz
2005-09-02 16:56     ` [PATCH 1/3] dynticks - implement no idle hz for x86 Russell King
2005-09-02 17:12       ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2005-09-03  6:13       ` Con Kolivas
2005-09-03  7:58         ` Russell King
2005-09-03  8:01           ` Con Kolivas
2005-09-03  8:06             ` Russell King
2005-09-03  8:14               ` Con Kolivas
2005-09-04 20:10                 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-09-04 20:26                   ` Russell King
2005-09-04 20:37                     ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-09-04 21:17                       ` Russell King
2005-09-05  3:08                       ` Con Kolivas
2005-09-05 16:28                         ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-09-05  6:58                       ` Tony Lindgren
2005-09-05 16:30                         ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-09-04 20:41                     ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-09-05  5:32                     ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2005-09-05  5:48                       ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-09-05  6:32                         ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2005-09-05  6:44                           ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-09-06 20:51                             ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-09-07  8:13                               ` Tony Lindgren
2005-09-07 15:00                                 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-09-07 15:53                                 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-09-07 17:07                                   ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2005-09-07 17:23                                     ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-09-07 18:14                                       ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2005-09-07 18:22                                         ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-09-07 16:14                           ` Bill Davidsen
2005-09-07 16:42                             ` Nish Aravamudan
2005-09-07 17:17                               ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2005-09-07 17:27                                 ` Nish Aravamudan
2005-09-07 18:18                                   ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2005-09-07 18:33                                     ` Nish Aravamudan
2005-09-09 16:27                                 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-09-05  7:37                       ` Russell King
2005-09-05  7:49                         ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2005-09-05  8:00                           ` Russell King
2005-09-05 16:33                             ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-09-05  7:00                   ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2005-09-05  7:27                     ` Tony Lindgren
2005-09-05 17:02                       ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-09-07  7:37                         ` Tony Lindgren
2005-09-07 15:05                           ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-09-08 10:00                             ` Tony Lindgren
2005-09-08 21:22                               ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-09-08 22:08                                 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-09-09 22:30                                   ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-09-20 11:06                                   ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2005-09-20 14:58                                     ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-09-22 13:38                                       ` Martin Schwidefsky
2005-09-22 14:52                                         ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-09-22 18:32                                           ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2005-09-26 15:08                                             ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2005-09-23  6:55                                         ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2005-09-05  7:44                     ` Russell King
2005-09-05  8:19                       ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2005-09-05  8:32                         ` Russell King
2005-09-05  9:24                           ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2005-09-05 17:06                           ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-09-05 17:04                       ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-09-05 17:27                         ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2005-09-05 18:06                           ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-09-05 13:19                     ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2005-09-05 16:57                     ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-09-05 17:25                       ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2005-09-05 18:11                         ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-09-03  4:05   ` [PATCH 1/3] Updated dynamic tick patches - Fix lost tick calculation in timer_pm.c Lee Revell
2005-09-03  4:18     ` Peter Williams
2005-09-03  4:34       ` Lee Revell
2005-09-03  4:48         ` Peter Williams
2005-09-03  5:15     ` Parag Warudkar
2005-09-03  5:30       ` Lee Revell
2005-09-03  5:20     ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri [this message]
2005-09-06 10:32     ` Pavel Machek
2005-09-06 10:46       ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2005-09-06 18:04     ` john stultz
2005-08-31 17:26 ` [PATCH 2/3] Updated dynamic tick patches - Cleanup Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2005-08-31 17:27 ` [PATCH 3/3] Updated dynamic tick patches - Recover walltime upon wakeup Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2005-09-01  5:23 ` Updated dynamic tick patches Con Kolivas
2005-09-01 13:07   ` Tony Lindgren
2005-09-01 13:19     ` David Weinehall
2005-09-01 13:46       ` Tony Lindgren
2005-09-01 14:11     ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2005-09-02 17:34     ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2005-09-03 10:16       ` Tony Lindgren

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