Re: ktimers in RT causing bad bogomips and more.

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Tue Oct 25 2005 - 17:24:19 EST


On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 18:15 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> if (!hres->active)
> return CLOCK_EVT_RUN_CYCLIC;

I'm searching for the brown paperbag.

Thats the startup code before switching over to high resolution, so it
should return 1, nothing else.

CLOCK_EVT_RUN_CYCLIC is a leftover of the initial implementation, which
did not take tick overruns into account.

Thanks,

tglx


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