Re: SMP time warps: count > LATCH - 1

From: dave madden (dhm@mersenne.com)
Date: Thu Jun 01 2000 - 11:43:53 EST


 On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 09:45:57PM -0700, I wrote:
 =>> Hi. I have a long-standing problem with timekeeping on my 2xPIII
 =>> machine [...]

 Ard van Breemen <ard@kwaak.net> replied:
 =>Well, actually I've seen this rather weird behaviour on 2.2.14 UP.
 =>[...]
 =>Using gcc-2.7.2 instead of gcc-2.95.2 seems to fix the problems.

Recompiled 2.3.99-pre7 with gcc-2.7.2.3 and haven't had the
gettimeofday instability yet! If I have some time this weekend, I'll
see if I can figure out what's different about 2.95.2's treatment of
time.c:timer_interrupt().

Thanks for the tip!

d.

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