Re: [PATCH] posix-cpu-timers: clock_gettime(CLOCK_*_CPUTIME_ID)goes backward

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Jan 07 2009 - 12:59:31 EST



* Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Which reminds me, why do we still have this crap in the kernel? I
> thought we pretty much showed the per-cpu itimer thing was utter crap?
> -- can we pretty please either revert that or apply
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/24/183 ?
>
> Also, I really don't like the above, we now do the per-cpu loop with the
> RQ lock held...

ok, i've applied it to tip/timers/urgent. This should solve the original
itimer testcase as well, correct?

Ingo
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