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SubjectRe: RCU NOHZ, tsc, and clock_gettime


On 11/12/2012 06:27 PM, John Stultz wrote:

> Hey Prarit,
> Just back from being on leave, and wanted to check in on this. Did you ever
> get to run with an increase sample size to see how that affected things? Its
> exactly your point that the non-NOHZ case could align the execution of a short
> run in a way that you always see good results, where as with NOHZ the alignment
> might not be the same, so you see periodic delays from timer interrupts, etc.
>
> Anyway, let me know if this got resolved or not.

Hey John,

I never did narrow this down, although this "disappears" with the move to the
lower resolution patches in upstream. I have not, however, done any testing to
see if the situation is actually resolved or if we just reduced the problem by a
factor of 1000 ;)

P.


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