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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Balaji Rao <balajirrao@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: setting jiffies as the clocksource stops time
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:23:28 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.99999.0801162221100.4372@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200801170209.42138.balajirrao@gmail.com>

On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Balaji Rao wrote:
> When i set jiffies as the current_clocksource, date(1) tells me that wallclock time has stopped, and soon after that, the 
> system becomes unresponsive. This is not seen with CONFIG_NO_HZ disabled.
> 
> This happens in 2.6.24-rc4,rc5, and even in rc8.

It happens since 2.6.21-rc1 on 32 bit.
 
> Thomas, Ingo what are your thoughts on this ?

http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/16/123

Thanks,
	tglx

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-16 21:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-16 20:39 Balaji Rao
2008-01-16 21:20 ` Daniel Walker
2008-01-17 22:34   ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-17 22:39     ` Daniel Walker
2008-01-18  6:11     ` Balaji Rao
2008-01-18 10:06       ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-01-16 21:23 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]

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