From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S938900AbXG3JZe (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jul 2007 05:25:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933839AbXG3JZ0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jul 2007 05:25:26 -0400 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:33253 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933366AbXG3JZZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jul 2007 05:25:25 -0400 Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:25:14 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Daniel Walker Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH -rt 3/9] Fix jiffies wrap issue in update_times Message-ID: <20070730092514.GC25640@elte.hu> References: <20070730024534.369897977@mvista.com> <20070730024719.502748134@mvista.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070730024719.502748134@mvista.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.0 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.0 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.1.7-deb -1.0 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Daniel Walker wrote: > In prior -rt verisons the last_tick value was called wall_jiffies and > was initialized in this same way as below. If this value isn't > initialized the calc_load function gets skewed for several minutes > right after boot up. Skewed meaning always zero. thanks, applied. Ingo