Re: [PATCH] nohz: add missing handling of clocksource watchdog

From: Sergei Shtylyov
Date: Sun Dec 07 2008 - 18:49:15 EST


Hello.

R. J. Wysocki wrote:
On Monday, 8 of December 2008, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
Fixes "Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -974982308 ns)" problem.

Where can I find the description of the problem?

Kernel.org bug #10216 (it's not about this issue though).

Rafael

[ IDE was unlucky to be initialized at the same time that
clocksource watchdog triggers and was blamed for the issue. ]

I think it might well have been blamed correctly -- the clocksource watchdog timer gets run every half second.

MBR, Sergei


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