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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Justin Madru <jdm64@gawab.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>,
	Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
	Rafael Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>,
	Romano Giannetti <romano.giannetti@gmail.com>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>,
	Jeremy Nickurak <kernel-bugs@atrus.rifetech.com>
Subject: Re: Backport hr-tick fix into .25/.26
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:25:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080819092543.GD28713@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1219127296.10800.357.camel@twins>


* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 02:31 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Justin Madru <jdm64@gawab.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > This commit introduced the bug.
> > > commit 8f4d37ec073c17e2d4aa8851df5837d798606d6f
> > > sched: high-res preemption tick
> > 
> > > And this one fixed it
> > >
> > > commit 31656519e132f6612584815f128c83976a9aaaef
> > > sched, x86: clean up hrtick implementation
> > 
> > hm, the backport of 31656519 is a bit intrusive.
> > 
> > find below is an (untested!) version of it - i havent even build-tested 
> > it. Does it work for you? But this is Greg's call really.
> > 
> 
> It largely depends on all the new IPI stuff that went into 27 as well, 
> so I'd be surprised if its easily backportable..

ah, i see. How about a simple patch then that disables hrtick [given 
that it's now fixed .27 but the fix is too intrusive to backport]? Would 
that be too risky for -stable?

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-19  9:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-18 18:21 Backport hr-tick fix into .25/.26 Justin Madru
2008-08-19  0:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-19  2:43   ` Justin Madru
2008-08-19  6:28   ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-19  9:25     ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-08-19  9:33       ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-19 18:22         ` Greg KH
2008-08-19 19:30           ` Justin Madru
2008-08-19 19:44             ` Greg KH
2008-08-19 22:54               ` [PATCH] sched: disable hrtick implementation Justin Madru
2008-08-20  7:24                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-20 18:43                   ` Justin Madru

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