Re: 2.6.14-rc3-rt2

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Oct 05 2005 - 10:58:52 EST



* Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 10:29 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > Hmm, Ingo,
> >
> > Do you know why time goes backwards when I run hackbench as a realtime
> > process? I added the output of start and stop and it does seem to go
> > backwards.
> >
> > Thomas?
>
> Yes. Thats happening. I moved the priority of softirq-timer above
> hackbench priority and the problem goes away. I look into this
> further.

wouldnt hackbench then permanently starve run_timer_softirq(), and
update_times() in particular?

Ingo
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