On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 08:41 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> ok, lets go back to this one:
>
> * Roman Zippel <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Let's assume a get_time() which simply returns xtime and so has a
> > resolution of around TICK_NSEC. This means the real time when one
> > calls get_time() is somewhere between xtime and xtime+TICK_NSEC.
> > Assuming the real time is xtime+TICK_NSEC-1, get_time() will return
> > xtime and a relative timer with TICK_NSEC-1 will expire immediately.
>
> i agree that on systems where get_time() has a TICK_NSEC resolution,
> such short timeouts are bad.
>
> i dont agree with the fix though: it penalizes platforms where
> ->get_time() resolution is sane.
Thats true, but we have no information about get_time() resolution at
all. So the only way to work around that for now is Romans fix even if
we add the penalty to _all_ platforms.
tglx
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