Re: 2.6.14-rc3-rt2

[Ingo Molnar]

* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
> >
> > It seems that the problem comes down to the call to getnstimeofday in
> > do_gettimeofday.
> >
> 
> OK, not sure if anyone looked into this more or not.  But this patch 
> seems to at least fix the symptom if not the cure.  I changed 
> set_normalize_timespec to take a nsec_t type as its last parameter.  
> Since I don't see a problem with overflowing a 64 bit number, this 
> works for now.  But I still don't know the full extent of 
> xtime_last_update not updating during something like hackbench 
> starving the timer softirq.

thanks, applied.

	Ingo
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