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SubjectRe: setitimer expire too early (Kernel 2.4)
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.

Linus, Andrew, do you consider this critical enough to be merged to
the v2.4 tree?
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