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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Luca Falavigna <dktrkranz@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Real-Time Preemption, using msecs_to_jiffies() instead of HZ
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 15:32:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050611133246.GA29414@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42A9C2E0.30002@gmail.com>


* Luca Falavigna <dktrkranz@gmail.com> wrote:

> I was looking at kernel/softlookup.c when I noticed you used HZ in order to get
> a 10-second delay:
> 
> void softlockup_tick(struct pt_regs *regs)
> {
> 	...
> 	if (time_after(jiffies, timestamp + 10*HZ)) {
> 	...
> }

oops, indeed. (i've also forwarded your patch to akpm, as the softlockup 
patch is included in -mm too)

> I created this small patch (built against version 
> 2.6.12-rc6-V0.7.48-05) which does use of msecs_to_jiffies() to get a 
> correct behaviour with every platform. Similarly I modified function 
> watchdog and kernel/irq/autoprobe.c file (probe_irq_on function).
> 
> Here is the patch:

> ++	msleep(msecs_to_jiffies(20));
> ++	msleep(msecs_to_jiffies(100));
> ++		msleep_interruptible(msecs_to_jiffies(1000));

actually, this should be msleep(20/100/1000). I've fixed these in my 
tree.

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2005-06-11 13:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-10 16:42 [PATCH] Real-Time Preemption, using msecs_to_jiffies() instead of HZ Luca Falavigna
2005-06-11 13:32 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2005-06-13  2:10   ` Luca Falavigna

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