From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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 07:31:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <469F75AF.5080000@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070719075152.GB12760@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar wrote:
> btw., could you apply the patch below as well? Maybe sched_clock() is
> misbehaving on your box? (with this i have 5 softlockup patches in my
> tree - and they are working fine so far.)
>
> Ingo
>
> ---------------->
> Subject: [patch] softlockup: use a reliable global time source
> From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
>
> using sched_clock() for the soft-lockups was a bad idea, sched_clock()
> is not a reliable global time-source.
>
How reliable does it need to be? All we need is to measure "about 10
seconds"; if we can't get that out of it, how can it be good for
anything else?
J
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-19 14:32 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 [this message]
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
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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