From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Francis Galiegue Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 17:03:33 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: 2.4.1 + 010131 patch: sys_nanosleep sleeps... Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Bill Nottingham wrote: >=20 > Jack Steiner (steiner@sgi.com) said:=20 > > We have also been seeing hangs running with the latest BIOS. The problem > > was isolated to a tiny window in arch/ia64/kernel/time.c where > > itm could get loaded with a value that is in the past. >=20 > I've certainly seen references to time going in the past recently; > the error messages are usually from ping. >=20 Yep, seen those too. Now they don't show up anymore. First impression about the patch: terrific! Not only does sleep work fine, = but it also cures the hangs I had on heavy I/O. --=20 Francis Galiegue, fg@mandrakesoft.com - Normand et fier de l'=EAtre "Programming is a race between programmers, who try and make more and more idiot-proof software, and universe, which produces more and more remarkable idiots. Until now, universe leads the race" -- R. Cook