linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] exponential update_wall

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Message-Id: <1159388660.9326.509.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Wed, 27 Sep 2006 22:24:19 +0200
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>,
	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] exponential update_wall_time

On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 22:08 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > Accumulate time in update_wall_time exponentially. This avoids long 
> > running loops seen with the dynticks patch as well as the problematic 
> > hang" seen on systems with broken clocksources.
> > 
> > This applies on top of 2.6.18-mm1
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>

Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>

> works fine and is included in 2.6.18-rt too.

Same here.

	tglx





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