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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>,
	Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Subject: Re: USB making time drift [was Re: dynamic-hz]
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 19:20:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041215182012.GH16322@dualathlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200412151144.38785.gene.heskett@verizon.net>

On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 11:44:38AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> The HZ=1000 is the culprit?

HZ=1000 isn't the culprit. The culprit is the >1msec latency of the usb
irq, but that wouldn't be visible with HZ 100 (for this specific case
HZ=100 would only be a band-aid). 

> Onboard AC-97 audio of course.  Crappy stuff... [..]

I doubt it's the chip, but only the motherboard to blame. My laptop has
the ac97 but no HZ sound out of it.

> translate to 10 millisecond intervals.  If you had a 4 millisecond 
> latency,
> that would be spread over 4 of the 1000 hz interrupts.  That sounds
> rather confusing to the service routine I imagine.

The ones that get confused are the system time and the jiffies, the rest
of the system can deal with long irq delays. The tick adjustment was
exactly implemented so that the jiffies and system time wouldn't get
confused anymore, but it just confuses it the other way around in my
current experience.

> I'll do that just for grins & report back.

Ok.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-15 18:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 126+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-11 14:23 dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-11 14:50 ` dynamic-hz Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-12-12  6:57   ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-11 21:41 ` dynamic-hz Jan Engelhardt
2004-12-12 16:35 ` dynamic-hz Pavel Machek
2004-12-12 22:23   ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-12 23:36     ` dynamic-hz Con Kolivas
2004-12-12 23:42       ` dynamic-hz Pavel Machek
2004-12-13  0:09         ` dynamic-hz Con Kolivas
2004-12-13  8:37           ` dynamic-hz Jan Engelhardt
2004-12-13 10:43           ` dynamic-hz Pavel Machek
2004-12-13 11:08             ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-13 19:36               ` dynamic-hz john stultz
2004-12-12 23:43       ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-13  0:18         ` dynamic-hz Con Kolivas
2004-12-13  0:27           ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-13  1:50             ` dynamic-hz Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-12-13 11:28               ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-13 12:43                 ` dynamic-hz Pavel Machek
2004-12-13 12:58                   ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-13 19:12                     ` dynamic-hz Pavel Machek
2004-12-13 20:34                       ` dynamic-hz john stultz
2004-12-13 20:49                         ` dynamic-hz Pavel Machek
2004-12-14  2:04                           ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
     [not found]                           ` <20041214013924.GB14617@atomide.com>
2004-12-14  9:37                             ` dynamic-hz Pavel Machek
2004-12-14 21:18                               ` dynamic-hz Tony Lindgren
2004-12-14 22:06                                 ` dynamic-hz Pavel Machek
2004-12-14 23:00                                   ` dynamic-hz linux-os
2004-12-14 23:13                                     ` dynamic-hz Tony Lindgren
2004-12-22 20:02                                       ` dynamic-hz Tony Lindgren
2004-12-14 23:04                                   ` dynamic-hz Tony Lindgren
2004-12-14  2:46                         ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-14 19:24                           ` dynamic-hz john stultz
2004-12-14  2:36                       ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-14  9:39                         ` dynamic-hz Pavel Machek
2004-12-14  9:59                         ` dynamic-hz Pavel Machek
2004-12-14 15:25                           ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-14 22:02                             ` USB making time drift [was Re: dynamic-hz] Pavel Machek
2004-12-14 23:16                               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-15  2:59                                 ` Gene Heskett
2004-12-15  9:17                                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-15 16:44                                     ` Gene Heskett
2004-12-15 18:20                                       ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2004-12-16  1:59                                         ` Gene Heskett
2004-12-16 11:30                                           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-16 12:50                                           ` Alan Cox
2004-12-15 20:16                                       ` Pavel Machek
2004-12-16  2:02                                         ` Gene Heskett
2004-12-15 17:03                                     ` Gene Heskett
2004-12-15 17:48                                       ` Tim Schmielau
2004-12-16  2:03                                         ` Gene Heskett
2004-12-16  0:58                                 ` Pavel Machek
2004-12-16  2:33                                   ` john stultz
2004-12-16  1:15                               ` Time goes crazy in 2.6.9 after long cli [was Re: USB making time drift] Pavel Machek
2004-12-16 11:13                                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-16 12:49                                   ` Alan Cox
2004-12-13 14:50                 ` dynamic-hz Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-12-13  7:43       ` dynamic-hz Stefan Seyfried
2004-12-13 13:58         ` dynamic-hz Russell King
2004-12-13 14:14           ` dynamic-hz Russell King
2004-12-13 14:52           ` dynamic-hz Alan Cox
2004-12-13 16:23             ` dynamic-hz Russell King
2004-12-13 17:53               ` dynamic-hz Michael Buesch
2004-12-13 18:04                 ` dynamic-hz Russell King
2004-12-13 19:04               ` dynamic-hz Pavel Machek
2004-12-13 20:11               ` dynamic-hz Russell King
2004-12-14  0:16             ` dynamic-hz Eric St-Laurent
2004-12-15 18:04               ` dynamic-hz Alan Cox
2004-12-15 19:54                 ` dynamic-hz linux-os
2004-12-16  2:17                   ` dynamic-hz Gene Heskett
2004-12-16 12:42                     ` dynamic-hz linux-os
2004-12-17 20:12                     ` dynamic-hz H. Peter Anvin
2004-12-16  9:10                 ` dynamic-hz Gabriel Paubert
2004-12-16 12:17                   ` dynamic-hz Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-12-16 14:00                   ` dynamic-hz Mitchell Blank Jr
2004-12-13 15:30           ` dynamic-hz Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-12-13 15:59             ` dynamic-hz Russell King
2004-12-13 16:14               ` dynamic-hz Pavel Machek
2004-12-13 16:06           ` dynamic-hz Pavel Machek
2004-12-13 16:19         ` dynamic-hz Jan Engelhardt
2004-12-13  8:29       ` dynamic-hz Jan Engelhardt
2004-12-14 22:54         ` dynamic-hz Lee Revell
2004-12-14 23:38           ` dynamic-hz Chris Friesen
2004-12-15  8:32             ` dynamic-hz Jan Engelhardt
2004-12-13 11:02       ` dynamic-hz Andrew Morton
2004-12-13 11:17         ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-13 11:25           ` dynamic-hz Andrew Morton
2004-12-13 11:47             ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-14  3:56               ` dynamic-hz Nish Aravamudan
2004-12-14  3:54             ` dynamic-hz Nish Aravamudan
2004-12-14  4:29               ` dynamic-hz Andrew Morton
2004-12-14  5:25                 ` dynamic-hz Nish Aravamudan
2004-12-17 20:10                 ` dynamic-hz Nish Aravamudan
2004-12-14 10:01               ` dynamic-hz Domen Puncer
2004-12-14 16:56                 ` dynamic-hz Nish Aravamudan
2004-12-14 14:23               ` dynamic-hz linux-os
2004-12-14 16:54                 ` dynamic-hz Nish Aravamudan
2004-12-14 17:15                   ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-14 17:42                     ` dynamic-hz Nish Aravamudan
2004-12-14 18:29                       ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-14 19:00                         ` dynamic-hz Nish Aravamudan
2004-12-14 18:22                     ` dynamic-hz linux-os
2004-12-14 18:38                       ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-14 18:50                       ` dynamic-hz Pavel Machek
2004-12-13 11:19         ` dynamic-hz Hans Kristian Rosbach
2004-12-13 11:22           ` dynamic-hz Pavel Machek
2004-12-13 11:39             ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-13 12:51             ` dynamic-hz Hans Kristian Rosbach
2004-12-13 13:01               ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-13 13:02                 ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-13 15:06               ` dynamic-hz Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-12-13 16:12                 ` dynamic-hz Pavel Machek
2004-12-13 16:14                   ` dynamic-hz Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-12-14  4:06                   ` dynamic-hz Nish Aravamudan
2004-12-14  4:05               ` dynamic-hz Nish Aravamudan
2004-12-13 11:33           ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-13 14:38           ` dynamic-hz Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-12-13 12:00       ` dynamic-hz Alan Cox
2004-12-13 15:52         ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-14 22:28       ` dynamic-hz Lee Revell
2004-12-14 22:40         ` dynamic-hz Con Kolivas
2004-12-14 22:50           ` dynamic-hz Lee Revell
2004-12-13 20:26 ` dynamic-hz Olaf Hering
2004-12-13 22:41   ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-13 20:56 ` dynamic-hz john stultz
2004-12-13 22:21   ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli

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