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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Paul Larson <plars@linuxtestproject.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [LTP] Re: LTP - gettimeofday02 FAIL
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:46:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021119154634.GA29949@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1037722343.12086.16.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>

On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 04:12:23PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 15:10, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > It is because of the HZ=1000. See Jim Houston's mail on the same topic,
> > he analyzed the failure.
> > 
> > Basically the current code cannot handle missing ticks properly on SMP and with
> > the new 1ms tick it is much more likely that a timer interrupt gets lost.
> 
> Ok so add that to the other existing 2.5 timer handling bugs 8(

2.4 has the same problem, it is just much less likely to hit because of HZ=100

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-19 15:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200211190127.gAJ1RWg11023@linux.local.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found] ` <1037713044.24031.15.camel@plars.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-11-19 14:24   ` [LTP] Re: LTP - gettimeofday02 FAIL Andi Kleen
2002-11-19 15:27     ` Alan Cox
2002-11-19 15:10       ` Andi Kleen
2002-11-19 16:12         ` Alan Cox
2002-11-19 15:46           ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2002-11-19  1:27 Jim Houston
2002-11-19 13:37 ` [LTP] " Paul Larson
2002-11-19 14:02   ` Dave Jones
2002-11-19 14:50     ` Paul Larson

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