On Saturday 08 December 2007 16:13:41 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * 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.
What about msleep()? I suspect problems in b43 because of this issue. msleep() returning too early. Is that possible with this bug? -- Greetings Michael. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
