Subject: Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3
From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Reply-To: dwalker@mvista.com
To: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu
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Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 15:28:38 -0800
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On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 18:15 -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 February 2007 3:40 pm, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > In this case "different" goes into userspace .. So different could mean
> > userspace regression, which is something that we don't want. I have no
> > idea if any apps use /proc/interrupts , but it's possible since it's
> > been around for a long time.
> > 
> > The reason that I'm bringing it up at all is because people have ask me
> > "Why isn't my timer ticking??"
> 
> Because there are two clock sources in the machine and it's using the other 
> one, so the interrupt isn't firing?
> 
> Are you saying that the /proc statistics aren't accurate, or that you 
> previously misunderstood what it was actually measuring and you'd now like it 
> to lie?

I understand exactly what is happening . The statistics are unclear, and
tend to confuse people .

Daniel

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