Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:05:37 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: setitimer expire too early (Kernel 2.4) |
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Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 09:14:50PM +0200, Olivier Croquette wrote: > > > > I am refering to this bug: > > > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4569 > > > > A thread led to a patch from Paulo: > > > > http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/1/message/59454/flat > > > > This patch has been included in the kernel 2.6.12. > > > > 1. How can I easily check if the patch is planned for include in the 2.4? > > > > 2. I downloaded the full 2.4.31 source code. The patch appears not to be > > included. Where/Who should I signal that? > > And what about the side effects: > This however will produce pathological cases, like having a idle system > being requested 1 ms timeouts will give systematically 2 ms timeouts, > whereas currently it simply gives a few usecs less than 1 ms.
(20ms rather than 10ms)
> Linus, Andrew, do you consider this critical enough to be merged to > the v2.4 tree?
No. I'd expect this would hurt more people than it would benefit. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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