Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Jul 2007 07:31:11 -0700 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: [patch] fix the softlockup watchdog to actually work |
| |
Ingo Molnar wrote: > btw., could you apply the patch below as well? Maybe sched_clock() is > misbehaving on your box? (with this i have 5 softlockup patches in my > tree - and they are working fine so far.) > > Ingo > > ----------------> > Subject: [patch] softlockup: use a reliable global time source > From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> > > using sched_clock() for the soft-lockups was a bad idea, sched_clock() > is not a reliable global time-source. >
How reliable does it need to be? All we need is to measure "about 10 seconds"; if we can't get that out of it, how can it be good for anything else?
J - 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/
| |