Re: [PATCH] scheduler: fix x86 regression in native_sched_clock

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> wrote:

> On Saturday 08 December 2007 16:13:41 Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > * Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> wrote:
> > 
> > > Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > >> ...
> > >> thanks. I do get the impression that most of this can/should wait until 
> > >> 2.6.25. The patches look quite dangerous.
> > > ..
> > >
> > > I confess to not really trying hard to understand everything in this 
> > > thread, but the implication seems to be that this bug might affect 
> > > udelay() and possibly jiffies ?
> > 
> > no, it cannot affect jiffies. (jiffies was a red herring all along)
> > 
> > udelay() cannot be affected either - sched_clock() has no effect on 
> > udelay(). _But_, when there are TSC problems then tsc based udelay() 
> > suffers too so the phenomenons may _seem_ related.
> 
> What about msleep()? I suspect problems in b43 because of this issue. 
> msleep() returning too early. Is that possible with this bug?

i cannot see how. You can verify msleep by running something like this:

  while :; do time usleep 111000; done

you should see a steady stream of:

 real    0m0.113s
 real    0m0.113s
 real    0m0.113s

(on an idle system). If it fluctuates, with occasional longer delays, 
there's some timer problem present.

	Ingo