Re: RFC: [PATCH] clocksource: tcb: fix min_delta calculation

[Marc Kleine-Budde]

On 09/09/2013 10:18 AM, Ronald Wahl wrote:
> On 20.06.2013 17:00, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
>> Hello Thomas,
>>
>> On 04/25/2013 04:53 PM, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
>>> On 04/25/2013 04:21 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 23 Apr 2013, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
>>>>> The commit
>>>>>
>>>>>      77cc982 clocksource: use clockevents_config_and_register()
>>>>> where possible
>>>>>
>>>>> switches from manually calculating min_delta_ns (and others) and
>>>>> clockevents_register_device() to automatic calculation via
>>>>> clockevents_config_and_register(). During this conversation the "+
>>>>> 1" in
>>>>>
>>>>>      min_delta_ns = clockevent_delta2ns(1, &clkevt.clkevt) + 1;
>>>>>
>>>>> was lost. This leads to problems with schedule_delayed_work() with
>>>>> a delay of
>>>>> "1". Resulting in the work not scheduled in time.
>>>>
>>>> Errm. How is schedule_delayed_work() related to this?
> 
> I also stumbled over this issue now after upgrading from 3.4.57 to
> 3.10.10. Even sleep() is unreliable - sleeping for 2 seconds often
> sleeps just more than 3 seconds.
> 
> The now lost +1 has actually been added in 2007 to solve a rounding issue:
> 
>   http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/549744
> 
> So I think this should either be fixed by always rounding up in
> clockevent_delta2ns() or by adding +1 to the min_delta_ns in the
> clockevents_config_and_register() function. Dunno if rounding up will
> cause problems with the max_delta_ns as it might be too big then so
> probably the second approach is better.
> 
> Opinions?

Thomas, any thoughts on this?

Marc
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