From: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
To: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@timesys.com>
Subject: Re: [2.6.24.x] UML select()/poll() oversleeping reproducibly
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:14:14 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87od9apdjd.fsf@hades.wkstn.nix> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080318170019.GA8747@c2.user-mode-linux.org> (Jeff Dike's message of "Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:00:19 -0400")
On 18 Mar 2008, Jeff Dike told this:
> This version keeps track of the time between ticks (as reported by the
> host's gettimeofday) and adjusts its sleeping and reporting ticks
> accordingly.
I can confirm that, as expected, this patch works well enough that
timing problems don't break dhclient anymore (which requires a 2x
oversleep, which you're a long way from now).
At last I can upgrade my firewall :)
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2008-03-14 23:01 ` [2.6.24.x] UML select()/poll() oversleeping reproducibly (was Re: [uml-devel] g_timeout_add) Nix
2008-03-17 16:27 ` Jeff Dike
2008-03-17 17:03 ` Jeff Dike
2008-03-17 19:34 ` Jeff Dike
2008-03-17 21:08 ` [2.6.24.x] UML select()/poll() oversleeping reproducibly Nix
2008-03-18 17:00 ` Jeff Dike
2008-03-18 19:39 ` Nix
2008-03-19 22:14 ` Nix [this message]
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