Re: [PATCH] scheduler: fix x86 regression in native_sched_clock

[Michael Buesch]

On Saturday 08 December 2007 16:13:41 Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Mark Lord <lkml@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >> ...
> >> thanks. I do get the impression that most of this can/should wait until 
> >> 2.6.25. The patches look quite dangerous.
> > ..
> >
> > I confess to not really trying hard to understand everything in this 
> > thread, but the implication seems to be that this bug might affect 
> > udelay() and possibly jiffies ?
> 
> no, it cannot affect jiffies. (jiffies was a red herring all along)
> 
> udelay() cannot be affected either - sched_clock() has no effect on 
> udelay(). _But_, when there are TSC problems then tsc based udelay() 
> suffers too so the phenomenons may _seem_ related.

What about msleep()? I suspect problems in b43 because of this issue.
msleep() returning too early. Is that possible with this bug?

-- 
Greetings Michael.
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