From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: george anzinger <george@mvista.com>
Cc: tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix nanosleep() granularity bumps
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 01:42:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030319014230.3412298e.akpm@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E78384A.6040406@mvista.com>
george anzinger <george@mvista.com> wrote:
>
> The attached patch is for 2.5.65. As of this moment, the bk patch has
> not been posted to the snapshots directory. I will wait for that to
> update.
Don't use the snapshots directory. Use
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.5/testing/cset/
It is more up to date.
> For what its worth, can someone explain how the add_timer call from
> run_timers was causing a problem. The code looks right to me, unless
> the caller is so nasty as to continue to do the same thing (which
> would loop forever).
That was the problem.
> In this case, the simple fix is to bump the
> base->timer_jiffies at the beginning of the loop rather than the end.
> This would cause the new timer to be put in the next jiffie instead
> of the current one AND it is free!
Didn't think of that - I just ported up Andrea's fix.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-19 9:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.33.0303181251130.28123-100000@gans.physik3.uni-rostock.de>
2003-03-18 20:26 ` Tim Schmielau
2003-03-19 2:08 ` george anzinger
2003-03-19 4:31 ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-19 2:37 ` george anzinger
2003-03-19 2:59 ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-19 7:51 ` Tim Schmielau
2003-03-19 8:35 ` george anzinger
2003-03-19 9:28 ` george anzinger
2003-03-19 9:40 ` Tim Schmielau
2003-03-19 21:30 ` george anzinger
[not found] ` <20030319155258.64cbc43d.akpm@digeo.com>
2003-03-19 22:25 ` [PATCH] Remove defered timer list in favor of moving the list time update george anzinger
2003-03-20 7:36 ` [PATCH] fix nanosleep() granularity bumps Tim Schmielau
2003-03-19 9:42 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-03-19 18:08 ` george anzinger
2003-03-19 18:51 ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-19 20:29 ` george anzinger
2003-03-17 19:42 [BUG & WORKAROUND] nanosleep() granularity bumps up in 2.5.64 Tim Schmielau
2003-03-18 9:05 ` [PATCH] fix nanosleep() granularity bumps Tim Schmielau
2003-03-24 12:06 ` Finn Arne Gangstad
2003-03-24 12:10 ` Tim Schmielau
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