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

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To: Mark Lord <lkml@...>
Cc: Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@...>, <stefano.brivio@...>, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...>, Robert Love <rml@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, Dave Jones <davej@...>, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...>, Michael Buesch <mb@...>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...>, Len Brown <lenb@...>
Date: Saturday, December 8, 2007 - 11:13 am

* Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> wrote:


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.


iirc these high rate wakeups happened on 2.6.22 too.

	Ingo
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Re: [PATCH] scheduler: fix x86 regression in native_sched_cl..., Guillaume Chazarain, (Fri Dec 7, 5:29 am)
Re: [PATCH] scheduler: fix x86 regression in native_sched_cl..., Guillaume Chazarain, (Fri Dec 7, 7:18 am)
Re: [PATCH] scheduler: fix x86 regression in native_sched_cl..., Guillaume Chazarain, (Fri Dec 7, 7:57 am)
Re: [PATCH] scheduler: fix x86 regression in native_sched_cl..., Guillaume Chazarain, (Fri Dec 7, 12:46 pm)
Re: [PATCH] scheduler: fix x86 regression in native_sched_cl..., Ingo Molnar, (Sat Dec 8, 11:13 am)
Re: [PATCH] scheduler: fix x86 regression in native_sched_cl..., Guillaume Chazarain, (Sat Dec 8, 7:37 pm)