Re: [PATCH -rt] disconnect warp check from hrtimers

From: Daniel Walker
Date: Wed Dec 27 2006 - 12:54:33 EST


On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 18:39 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Daniel Walker <dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > These calls were getting inconsistent wrt. the xtime_lock. The
> > xtime_lock should be held when doing the warp check update, and
> > interrupts should be off.
>
> thanks, applied. Does this solve some warnings that you saw trigger?

I saw some unexplained time warping while using the source at this url,

http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/rgooch/benchmarks/linux-scheduler.html

it was on an older 2.6.18 based -rt .. The system would print the time
warp warning, then hang .. I applied something similar to the patch I
just sent, and the time warp warning was gone but the system still hung.

New -rt version don't hang, and I don't see the warning .. However, I
suspect the time warp warning was a side effect of the hang..

The system hang was resolved by changing the irq threads to all prio
50 ..

Daniel

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