Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Dec 10 2007 - 17:45:41 EST



* Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > what do you think? Right now i've got them queued up for 2.6.25 in
> > both the scheduler-devel and the x86-devel git trees - but can
> > submit them for 2.6.24 if it's better if we did them there. I've got
> > no strong opinion either way.
>
> printk_clock() doesn't seem terribly important but what's this stuff
> about effects on udelay/mdelay? That can be serious if they're
> getting shortened.

since udelay depends on loops_per_jiffy, which is fixed up
time_cpufreq_notifier(), i dont see how it could be affected by
frequency changes. (but that's the theory - practice might be different)

Ingo
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