Re: setitimer expire too early (Kernel 2.4)

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 09:14:50PM +0200, Olivier Croquette wrote:
> > 
> > I am refering to this bug:
> > 
> > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4569
> > 
> > A thread led to a patch from Paulo:
> > 
> > http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/1/message/59454/flat
> > 
> > This patch has been included in the kernel 2.6.12.
> > 
> > 1. How can I easily check if the patch is planned for include in the 2.4?
> > 
> > 2. I downloaded the full 2.4.31 source code. The patch appears not to be 
> > included. Where/Who should I signal that?
> 
> And what about the side effects:
> This however will produce pathological cases, like having a idle system
> being requested 1 ms timeouts will give systematically 2 ms timeouts,
> whereas currently it simply gives a few usecs less than 1 ms. 

(20ms rather than 10ms)

> Linus, Andrew, do you consider this critical enough to be merged to 
> the v2.4 tree?

No.  I'd expect this would hurt more people than it would benefit.