Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 22:05:30 +0100
From: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: huggie@earth.li, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Scheduler broken? sdhci issues with scheduling
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On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 21:38:08 +0100
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:

> On Mon 2008-03-03 20:43:00, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> > 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.

I'm afraid I could never reproduce the problem. So it's Simon that will have to do the tests for now..


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