Re: 2.6.16-rc6-rt7

[Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 11:37:19AM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 16:36 -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 10:56:08AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > > i have released the 2.6.16-rc6-rt7 tree, which can be downloaded from 
> > > the usual place:
> > > 
> > >    http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/
> > 
> > I was wondering, is it normal for the nanosleep02 and alarm02 LTP tests
> > to fail?  For sometime I've seen these tests fail from time to time with
> > the -RT patch but not the regular kernel.
> 
> The nanosleep02 failure is incorrect due to rounding errors in the test
> code.
[snip]
> This never happens on vanilla, as the nanosleep is rounded to the next
> jiffie. -rt has high resolution timers which are delivered accurate, so
> the rounding errors of the testcode surface.

Thanks!  Any ideas about the alarm02 test?

-- 
Tom Rini
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
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