Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RT] fix delay in do_vgettimeofday() in arch/x86_64/kernel/vsyscall.c | From | john stultz <> | Date | Fri, 09 Dec 2005 18:33:40 -0800 |
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On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 22:38 +0300, Serge Belyshev wrote: > > There are occasional very very long (30..60 sec) delays happening when calling > gettimeofday() vsyscall on x86_64 with 2.6.14-rt22 kernel. > > These delays come from while() looping over invalid data that are > going to be discarded by seqlock.
Ah, good catch! I just included a similar change (moved all the math outside the lock) in my own tree.
Thanks for finding this! -john
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