Imre Deak writes:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 11:27:55AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
>> Quoting Mika Kuoppala (2018-04-20 10:54:26)
>> > We use jiffies to determine when wait expires. However
>> > Imre did find out that jiffies can and will do a >1
>> > increments on certain situations [1]. When thi
On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 11:27:55AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Quoting Mika Kuoppala (2018-04-20 10:54:26)
> > We use jiffies to determine when wait expires. However
> > Imre did find out that jiffies can and will do a >1
> > increments on certain situations [1]. When this happens
> > in a wait_fo
Chris Wilson writes:
> Quoting Sagar Arun Kamble (2018-04-20 11:23:50)
>>
>>
>> On 4/20/2018 3:24 PM, Mika Kuoppala wrote:
>> > We use jiffies to determine when wait expires. However
>> > Imre did find out that jiffies can and will do a >1
>> > increments on certain situations [1]. When this ha
On 4/20/2018 4:09 PM, Chris Wilson wrote:
Quoting Sagar Arun Kamble (2018-04-20 11:23:50)
On 4/20/2018 3:24 PM, Mika Kuoppala wrote:
We use jiffies to determine when wait expires. However
Imre did find out that jiffies can and will do a >1
increments on certain situations [1]. When this happ
Quoting Sagar Arun Kamble (2018-04-20 11:23:50)
>
>
> On 4/20/2018 3:24 PM, Mika Kuoppala wrote:
> > We use jiffies to determine when wait expires. However
> > Imre did find out that jiffies can and will do a >1
> > increments on certain situations [1]. When this happens
> > in a wait_for loop, w
Quoting Mika Kuoppala (2018-04-20 10:54:26)
> We use jiffies to determine when wait expires. However
> Imre did find out that jiffies can and will do a >1
> increments on certain situations [1]. When this happens
> in a wait_for loop, we return timeout errorneously
> much earlier than what the real
On 4/20/2018 3:24 PM, Mika Kuoppala wrote:
We use jiffies to determine when wait expires. However
Imre did find out that jiffies can and will do a >1
increments on certain situations [1]. When this happens
in a wait_for loop, we return timeout errorneously
much earlier than what the real wallcl
We use jiffies to determine when wait expires. However
Imre did find out that jiffies can and will do a >1
increments on certain situations [1]. When this happens
in a wait_for loop, we return timeout errorneously
much earlier than what the real wallclock would say.
We can't afford our waits to ti
