On Sun, 25 May 2008, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

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> On Sat, 24 May 2008 23:11:20 -0400 (EDT)
> Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> >
> > In git commit 35d5d08a085c56f153458c3f5d8ce24123617faf, Andrew Morton
> > placed preempt_disable around the entire delay due to TSC's not
> > working nicely on SMP.  Unfortunately for those that care about
> > latencies this is devastating! Especially when we have callers to
> > mdelay(8).
>
> we used to have a WARN_ON if mdelay was called while preemptable..
> maybe we should put that back in?
>

That would be a good idea, but that wouldn't solve this issue. The issue
here is that the mdelay itself disables preemption. The caller had
preemption enabled.

The problem was caused by a quick fix by Andrew to handle out of sync
TSC's for a delay that used TSC's as a counter.

-- Steve

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