Re: Scheduler broken? sdhci issues with scheduling

From: Pierre Ossman
Date: Mon Mar 03 2008 - 16:07:13 EST


On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 21:38:08 +0100
Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon 2008-03-03 20:43:00, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> > The problem is that the kernel sleeps _less_ than asked for, not more. No hardware can be expected to work if its needed delays aren't respected.
> >
>
> Oops, that's bad. Can you perhaps create small testcase for
> scheduler/timer people to play with?
>
> Also... you may want to switch timesources. notsc fixed "wait for much
> too long" for me.

I'm afraid I could never reproduce the problem. So it's Simon that will have to do the tests for now..


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