Re: the stuttering regression in 7.0: should I have done something different?

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 5/8/26 07:51, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On Thu, 2026-04-23 at 18:30 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> FWIW, here is the rough timeline of the regression, just to be sure we
>> are all on the same page:
>>
>> * The regression I'm talking about is caused by d6e152d905bdb1
>> ("clockevents: Prevent timer interrupt starvation") [authored:
>> 2026-04-07 10:54:17; committed: 2026-04-10 22:45:38; next arrival:
>> next-20260413; merged: 2026-04-12 19:01:55; v7.0 (2026-04-12 22:48:06)]
> [...]
> Tony Rodriguez from the SPARC community has observed the regression on SPARC as well
> and proposed a fix to address it [1]. Not sure whether he has retested on the latest
> commit of Linus' tree yet.
> 
> Tony, can you verify that 4096fd0e8eaea1 fixes the issue for you?
>
>> [1] https://github.com/sparclinux/issues/issues/79

It's likely a different regressions, as that report's title says that
v7.0.1, v7.0.2, v7.0.3, and v7.1‑rc1 are affected, which all contain the
fix, aka 4096fd0e8eaea1. Reporting in a new thread is likely best, as
the authors of the culprit are not even CCed here.

Ciao, Thorsten