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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/13] hrtimer: round up relative start time
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 08:41:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060214074151.GA29426@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0602131208050.30994@scrub.home>


ok, lets go back to this one:

* Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> wrote:

> Let's assume a get_time() which simply returns xtime and so has a 
> resolution of around TICK_NSEC. This means the real time when one 
> calls get_time() is somewhere between xtime and xtime+TICK_NSEC.  
> Assuming the real time is xtime+TICK_NSEC-1, get_time() will return 
> xtime and a relative timer with TICK_NSEC-1 will expire immediately.

i agree that on systems where get_time() has a TICK_NSEC resolution, 
such short timeouts are bad.

i dont agree with the fix though: it penalizes platforms where 
->get_time() resolution is sane.

	Ingo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-02-14  7:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-13  1:09 [PATCH 01/13] hrtimer: round up relative start time Roman Zippel
2006-02-13 10:52 ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-02-13 11:25   ` Roman Zippel
2006-02-13 13:01     ` Ingo Molnar
2006-02-13 13:42       ` Roman Zippel
2006-02-13 14:44         ` Ingo Molnar
2006-02-13 15:49           ` Roman Zippel
2006-02-13 19:55             ` Ingo Molnar
2006-02-13 22:29               ` Roman Zippel
2006-02-14  7:41     ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2006-02-14 10:18       ` Roman Zippel
2006-02-14 12:20         ` [patch] hrtimer: round up relative start time on low-res arches Ingo Molnar
2006-02-14 21:51           ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-02-15  0:30           ` Roman Zippel
2006-02-15  9:19             ` Ingo Molnar
2006-02-15 12:26               ` Roman Zippel
2006-02-15 20:43                 ` john stultz
2006-02-16 14:10                   ` Roman Zippel
2006-02-16 19:06                     ` john stultz
2006-02-16 23:44                       ` Roman Zippel
2006-02-17  0:28                         ` john stultz
2006-02-17 15:02                           ` Roman Zippel
2006-02-14 10:26       ` [PATCH 01/13] hrtimer: round up relative start time Thomas Gleixner

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