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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: George Anzinger <george@mvista.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>,
	Guillaume Foliard <guifo@wanadoo.fr>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Scheduler degradation since 2.5.66
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 00:52:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031216005251.GB3364@mail.shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FDE5449.60507@mvista.com>

George Anzinger wrote:
> Try running the test with a requested sleep time of something less than 
> 0.999849 ms.  All this is for the x86 which is using this time to do the 
> best it can with the PIT which can only get this close to 1 ms ticks.  You 
> can even vary this number to see exactly where the round up actually 
> happens.  Ah, life in the nano world :)

Would it be better to program the PIT for lowest frequency that's >= 1.0ms.

-- Jamie

  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-16  0:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-14 19:48 Scheduler degradation since 2.5.66 Guillaume Foliard
2003-12-15  2:45 ` Nick Piggin
2003-12-15  4:18   ` Nick Piggin
2003-12-16  0:39     ` George Anzinger
2003-12-16  0:52       ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2003-12-16  7:45         ` George Anzinger
2004-01-15  0:43       ` Bill Davidsen
2004-01-15  3:36         ` George Anzinger

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