From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
stable@kernel.org, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] fix the softlockup watchdog to actually work
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:50:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070719145058.GA11971@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <469F793E.6030006@goop.org>
* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:
> Hm, or more specifically, why would that be a problem for softlockup?
> Do you mean it doesn't measure time during ACPI idle? That would just
> make it trigger later than it would otherwise.
no, the return value after idling can be completely random on some
boxes, on a 64-bit scale - triggering the softlockup watchdog randomly.
(some boxes return random TSC values, etc.) Again, it's fine for the
scheduler's purpose, that's why i named it sched_clock().
the proper clocksource use within the kernel is ktime_get() [or
ktime_get_ts()]. Do not abuse sched_clock() for such things.
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-19 14:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-17 11:44 [patch] softlockup watchdog: fix Xen bogosity Ingo Molnar
2007-07-17 14:17 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-17 15:49 ` [patch] fix the softlockup watchdog to actually work Ingo Molnar
2007-07-17 17:03 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-07-17 17:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-17 18:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-17 21:38 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-07-19 7:22 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-19 7:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-19 7:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-19 14:31 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-19 14:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-19 14:40 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-19 14:46 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-19 14:50 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-07-19 15:04 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-19 15:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-19 15:21 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-19 15:42 ` [patch] sched: implement cpu_clock(cpu) high-speed time source Ingo Molnar
2007-07-19 15:44 ` [patch] sched: implement cpu_clock(cpu) high-speed time source, take #2 Ingo Molnar
2007-07-19 16:11 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-19 16:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-19 16:18 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-19 16:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-19 16:29 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-19 17:24 ` Jens Axboe
2007-07-19 18:10 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-19 18:20 ` Jens Axboe
2007-07-25 8:49 ` [patch] fix the softlockup watchdog to actually work Andrew Morton
2007-07-25 8:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-25 8:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-25 9:00 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-25 9:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-25 9:17 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-25 9:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-25 9:59 ` Jens Axboe
2007-07-25 11:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-25 11:06 ` Jens Axboe
2007-07-25 16:34 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-03 23:49 ` Yinghai Lu
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