* Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> ...
>> thanks. I do get the impression that most of this can/should wait until
>> 2.6.25. The patches look quite dangerous.
> ..
>
> I confess to not really trying hard to understand everything in this
> thread, but the implication seems to be that this bug might affect
> udelay() and possibly jiffies ?
no, it cannot affect jiffies. (jiffies was a red herring all along)
udelay() cannot be affected either - sched_clock() has no effect on
udelay(). _But_, when there are TSC problems then tsc based udelay()
suffers too so the phenomenons may _seem_ related.
> If so, then fixing it has to be a *must* for 2.6.24, as otherwise
> we'll get all sorts of one-in-while odd driver bugs.. like maybe these
> two for starters:
>
> [Bug 9492] 2.6.24: false double-clicks from USB mouse
> [Bug 9489] 20000+ wake-ups/second in 2.6.24
iirc these high rate wakeups happened on 2.6.22 too.
Ingo
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