Re: [LTP] Re: LTP - gettimeofday02 FAIL

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Tue Nov 19 2002 - 11:12:23 EST


On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 15:10, Andi Kleen wrote:
> It is because of the HZ=1000. See Jim Houston's mail on the same topic,
> he analyzed the failure.
>
> Basically the current code cannot handle missing ticks properly on SMP and with
> the new 1ms tick it is much more likely that a timer interrupt gets lost.

Ok so add that to the other existing 2.5 timer handling bugs 8(

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