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

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Message-ID: <20071219015822.1c9126e2@morte>
Date:	Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:58:22 +0100
From:	Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@...imi.it>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, rjw@...k.pl,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@...oo.fr>
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:01:20 +0100
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:

> ok, just to make sure we are all synced up. I made 8 patches related to 
> this problem category (and all the trickle effects). 3 are upstream 
> already, 5 are pending for v2.6.25. One out of those 5 is an immaterial 
> cleanup patch - which leaves us 4 patches to sort out.
> 
> So i'd suggest for you to try latest -git - that will tell us whether 
> udelay() is acceptable on your box right now.
> 
> i've attached those 4 patches:
> 
>  x86-sched_clock-re-scheduler-fix-x86-regression-in-native-sched-clock.patch
>  x86-cpu-clock-idle-event.patch
>  sched-printk-recursion-fix.patch
>  sched-printk-clock-fix.patch
> 
> none of them is _supposed_ to have any effect on udelay(), but the 
> interactions in this area are weird.

Exactly, none of them have any effect on udelay().

> [ note: CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME will be broken and only fixed in v2.6.25, so 
>   use some other time metric for determining mdelay quality. ]
> 
> plus then there's this patch:
> 
>   http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/7/100
> 
> is it perhaps this one that fixed udelay for you? [ which would be much 
> more expected, as this patch changes udelay ;-) ]

Yes, this one did. mdelay(2000) still gives delays between 2 and 2.9s, which is
acceptable. I have marked the regression as CODE_FIX.


--
Ciao
Stefano
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