Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 21:38:08 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx>
Cc: huggie@earth.li, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Scheduler broken? sdhci issues with scheduling
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On Mon 2008-03-03 20:43:00, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Mar 2008 11:40:31 +0100
> Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Is mmc slow or does it just break down? Slow would be expected, but
> > breaking down should be fixed in MMC, too...
> > 
> 
> The problem is that the kernel sleeps _less_ than asked for, not more. No hardware can be expected to work if its needed delays aren't respected.
> 

Oops, that's bad. Can you perhaps create small testcase for
scheduler/timer people to play with?

Also... you may want to switch timesources. notsc fixed "wait for much
too long" for me.
								Pavel
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