From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
To: Olivier Croquette <ocroquette@free.fr>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
torvalds@osdl.org
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: setitimer expire too early (Kernel 2.4)
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:50:53 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050630165053.GA8220@logos.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42C444AA.2070508@free.fr>
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 09:14:50PM +0200, Olivier Croquette wrote:
>
> I am refering to this bug:
>
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4569
>
> A thread led to a patch from Paulo:
>
> http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/1/message/59454/flat
>
> This patch has been included in the kernel 2.6.12.
>
> 1. How can I easily check if the patch is planned for include in the 2.4?
>
> 2. I downloaded the full 2.4.31 source code. The patch appears not to be
> included. Where/Who should I signal that?
And what about the side effects:
This however will produce pathological cases, like having a idle system
being requested 1 ms timeouts will give systematically 2 ms timeouts,
whereas currently it simply gives a few usecs less than 1 ms.
Linus, Andrew, do you consider this critical enough to be merged to
the v2.4 tree?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-30 21:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-30 19:14 setitimer expire too early (Kernel 2.4) Olivier Croquette
2005-06-30 16:50 ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2005-06-30 21:59 ` Willy Tarreau
2005-06-30 23:05 ` Andrew Morton
2005-07-01 9:44 ` George Anzinger
2005-07-01 17:52 ` Olivier Croquette
2005-07-01 14:49 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-07-01 21:14 ` George Anzinger
2005-07-03 11:56 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-07-04 11:47 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-06-30 21:46 ` Willy Tarreau
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