From: Frank van Maarseveen <frankvm@xs4all.nl>
To: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.6.0-test2 loses time on 486
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 23:47:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030729214705.GA24743@iapetus.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200307291734.h6THYhmp012585@harpo.it.uu.se>
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 07:34:43PM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> My old 486 test box is losing time at an alarming rate
> when running 2.6.0-test kernels. It loses almost 2 minutes
> per hour, less if it sits idle. This problem does not
> occur when it's running a 2.4 kernel.
I recently saw a patch to compensate for the 1000/1024 ratio,
HZ being 1000 nowadays. I'm not sure if it is already in test2.
It wasn't in test1. There is a similar compensation for 100/128
in case HZ == 100. Search for HZ == 100 in kernel/timer.c in
second_overflow()
I'm not sure what this fix does does but 2 minutes per hour is close to
1000/1024 ratio.
--
Frank
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-29 21:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-29 17:34 Mikael Pettersson
2003-07-29 18:59 ` john stultz
2003-07-29 19:15 ` Sean Estabrooks
2003-07-29 21:47 ` Frank van Maarseveen [this message]
2003-07-30 19:19 Mikael Pettersson
2003-07-30 20:08 ` john stultz
2003-07-30 22:52 Mikael Pettersson
2003-07-30 23:16 ` john stultz
2003-07-31 6:06 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
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