From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263156AbVF3Vlk (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jun 2005 17:41:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263094AbVF3VlT (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jun 2005 17:41:19 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:18066 "EHLO parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263034AbVF3Vip (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jun 2005 17:38:45 -0400 Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:50:53 -0300 From: Marcelo Tosatti To: Olivier Croquette , Andrew Morton , torvalds@osdl.org Cc: LKML Subject: Re: setitimer expire too early (Kernel 2.4) Message-ID: <20050630165053.GA8220@logos.cnet> References: <42C444AA.2070508@free.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42C444AA.2070508@free.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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?