On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 22:42 +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: > With this patch, time had kept up really well on one particular > machine (Intel 4way Pentium 3 box) overnight, while > on another newer machine (Intel 4way Xeon with HT) it didnt do so > well (time sped up after 3 or 4 hours). Hence I consider this > particular patch will need more review/work. >
Are lost ticks really that common? If so, any idea what's disabling interrupts for so long (or if it's a hardware issue)? And if not, it seems like you'd need an artificial way to simulate lost ticks in order to test this stuff. Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
