On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:03:00 -0800 "Paul E. McKenney" <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> Just to make sure I am really understanding what is happening, let's > suppose we have a HZ=1000 system that has a few tasks that > occasionally run at prio 99. These tasks would run during the clamp > interval, but would (for example) see the jiffies counter remaining > at the value at the beginning of the clamp interval until the end of > that interval, when the jiffies counter would suddenly jump by roughly > six counts, right? Yes, if there is no interrupts disturb the clamping duration. We do not mask interrupts which will update jiffies. -- Thanks, Jacob -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
