On Fri, 5 Aug 2005 08:12 am, Marc Ballarin wrote: > On Wed, 3 Aug 2005 15:59:24 +1000 > > Con Kolivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is the dynamic ticks patch for i386 as written by Tony Lindgen > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Tuukka Tikkanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > > Patch for 2.6.13-rc5 > > One issue (tested the -rc4 Version on -mm): > - on interrupt flood (ping -f) HZ goes down to 0-4 HZ. > This matches "ticks to skip" below. Coincidence? > > - ping -f complains: > .Warning: time of day goes back (-304us), taking countermeasures. > ... > .Warning: time of day goes back (-33us), taking countermeasures. > > Yet, system time _seems_ to be kept correctly.
Interesting... It almost seems like if you throw enough interrupts at it the next_timer_interrupt function gets confused. I wonder if S390 and ARM are seeing this at all since (it seems to me) they use that function? Con - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
