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SubjectRe: Scheduler broken? sdhci issues with scheduling
(please cc me)

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 09:39:14PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Simon Huggins <huggie@earth.li> wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 02:34:33PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > * Simon Huggins <huggie@earth.li> wrote:
> > > > [ Please Cc me on replies ]
> > > > I had a bug with sdhci which Pierre Ossman looked at for me.
> > > > In the end essentially the fix was to use HZ=1000 and nothing else.
> > > > Pierre seemed to think that this was a bug in the scheduler.
> > > does the patch below help, even if you keep HZ=100? This doesnt look
> > > like a scheduler issue, it's more of a timer/timing issue. Different HZ
> > > means different msleep() results - and the mmc code does a loop of small
> > > msleep delays.
> > Thanks for looking at it.
> > I did tests with 2.6.24.3 with HZ=1000 and HZ=100 and as expected the
> > latter didn't work.
[..]
> > That doesn't work. I did a test with HZ=100 and this patch. I've
> > attached the log as patch1-log.

> > Anything else I can try?
> so neither precise, nor imprecise timings help??

I don't know. I don't really understand the patches I applied I'm
afraid; I'm just reporting the results.

I've cc'd Pierre Ossman so he might have a look from the sdhci point of
view.

Pierre, the thread starts here:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/29/118

Simon.

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