From: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
Cc: Olivier Croquette <ocroquette@free.fr>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
torvalds@osdl.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: setitimer expire too early (Kernel 2.4)
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 23:59:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050630215934.GL8907@alpha.home.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050630165053.GA8220@logos.cnet>
Hi Marcelo,
you type faster than me :-)
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 01:50:53PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> 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.
Unless I'm mistaken, it's worse. 1 ms will lead to 11 ms because
HZ is still 100 on most common archs in 2.4. Perhaps we could find
a way to round it_real_incr up instead of systematically adding 1
to interval ?
Cheers,
Willy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-30 21:59 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
2005-06-30 21:59 ` Willy Tarreau [this message]
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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