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SubjectRe: 'global' rq->clock

* David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:

> From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 12:10:16 +0200
>
> > ( although please note that the growing generalization that goes on
> > _did_ find a subtle nohz problem on sparc64 early in the merge
> > window, so it's not like these changes are totally useless to you.
> > )
>
> Note that this bug theoretically exists on every platform, even x86,
> and only sparc64 is fixed at the moment by adding the
> irq_{entry,exit}() guards around all of it's IPI handlers.
>
> Just a reminder.

yeah, indeed - it's masked on x86 by the suckiness of most clockevents
hw timers. We dont get unlimited sleep time like sparc64 does :-/

Ingo


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