linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

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Message-ID: <20071210224508.GB27178@elte.hu>
Date:	Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:45:08 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	rjw@...k.pl, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23


* Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> > what do you think? Right now i've got them queued up for 2.6.25 in 
> > both the scheduler-devel and the x86-devel git trees - but can 
> > submit them for 2.6.24 if it's better if we did them there. I've got 
> > no strong opinion either way.
> 
> printk_clock() doesn't seem terribly important but what's this stuff 
> about effects on udelay/mdelay?  That can be serious if they're 
> getting shortened.

since udelay depends on loops_per_jiffy, which is fixed up 
time_cpufreq_notifier(), i dont see how it could be affected by 
frequency changes. (but that's the theory - practice might be different)

	Ingo
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