From: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: George Spelvin <linux@sciencehorizons.net>,
arjan@infradead.org, clm@fb.com, edumazet@google.com,
fweisbec@gmail.com, lenb@kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ltp@lists.linux.it,
mingo@kernel.org, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
peterz@infradead.org, riel@redhat.com, rt@linutronix.de,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [LTP] [patch V2 00/20] timer: Refactor the timer wheel
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 18:31:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160623163142.GB20808@rei.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1606231720080.5839@nanos>
Hi!
> > That is likely POSIX conformance bug, since POSIX explicitly states that
> > sigtimedwait() shall use CLOCK_MONOTONIC to measure the timeout.
> >
> > "If the Monotonic Clock option is supported, the CLOCK_MONOTONIC clock
> > shall be used to measure the time interval specified by the timeout
> > argument."
>
> That's fine because jiffies is a less granular form of CLOCK_MONOTONIC.
Looking into POSIX Realtime Clock and Timers it seems to allow that time
service based on CLOCK_* clocks to have different resolution if it's
less or equal than 20ms and if this fact is documented. If we wanted to
be pedantic about this the man page shoud be patched...
Also this gives us reasonably safe upper bound on timer expiration to be
something as:
sleep_time * 1.125 + 20ms
Does this sounds reasonable now?
--
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-23 16:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-17 13:26 [patch V2 00/20] timer: Refactor the timer wheel Thomas Gleixner
2016-06-17 13:26 ` [patch V2 01/20] timer: Make pinned a timer property Thomas Gleixner
2016-06-17 13:26 ` [patch V2 02/20] x86/apic/uv: Initialize timer as pinned Thomas Gleixner
2016-06-17 13:26 ` [patch V2 03/20] x86/mce: " Thomas Gleixner
2016-06-17 13:26 ` [patch V2 05/20] driver/net/ethernet/tile: " Thomas Gleixner
2016-06-21 18:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-06-17 13:26 ` [patch V2 04/20] cpufreq/powernv: " Thomas Gleixner
2016-06-17 13:26 ` [patch V2 06/20] drivers/tty/metag_da: " Thomas Gleixner
2016-06-17 13:26 ` [patch V2 07/20] drivers/tty/mips_ejtag: " Thomas Gleixner
2016-06-17 13:26 ` [patch V2 08/20] net/ipv4/inet: Initialize timers " Thomas Gleixner
2016-06-17 13:26 ` [patch V2 09/20] timer: Remove mod_timer_pinned Thomas Gleixner
2016-06-17 13:26 ` [patch V2 10/20] hlist: Add hlist_is_singular_node() helper Thomas Gleixner
2016-06-17 13:26 ` [patch V2 11/20] timer: Give a few structs and members proper names Thomas Gleixner
2016-06-17 13:26 ` [patch V2 12/20] timer: Switch to a non cascading wheel Thomas Gleixner
2016-06-18 9:55 ` George Spelvin
2016-06-24 10:06 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-06-17 13:26 ` [patch V2 13/20] timer: Remove slack leftovers Thomas Gleixner
2016-06-17 13:26 ` [patch V2 14/20] timer: Move __run_timers() function Thomas Gleixner
2016-06-17 13:26 ` [patch V2 15/20] timer: Optimize collect timers for NOHZ Thomas Gleixner
2016-06-17 13:26 ` [patch V2 16/20] tick/sched: Remove pointless empty function Thomas Gleixner
2016-06-17 13:26 ` [patch V2 17/20] timer: Forward wheel clock whenever possible Thomas Gleixner
2016-06-17 13:26 ` [patch V2 18/20] timer: Only wake softirq if necessary Thomas Gleixner
2016-06-17 13:26 ` [patch V2 19/20] timer: Split out index calculation Thomas Gleixner
2016-06-17 13:26 ` [patch V2 20/20] timer: Optimization for same expiry time in mod_timer() Thomas Gleixner
2016-06-17 13:48 ` [patch V2 00/20] timer: Refactor the timer wheel Eric Dumazet
2016-06-17 13:57 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-06-17 14:25 ` Eric Dumazet
2016-06-20 13:56 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-06-20 14:46 ` Arjan van de Ven
2016-06-20 14:46 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-06-20 14:49 ` Arjan van de Ven
2016-06-20 19:03 ` Rik van Riel
2016-06-21 2:48 ` Eric Dumazet
2016-06-17 14:26 ` Arjan van de Ven
2016-06-20 15:05 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-06-20 15:13 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-06-20 15:41 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-06-22 7:37 ` Mike Galbraith
2016-06-22 8:44 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-06-22 9:06 ` Mike Galbraith
2016-06-22 13:37 ` Mike Galbraith
2016-06-22 10:28 ` [LTP] " Cyril Hrubis
2016-06-23 8:27 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-06-23 11:47 ` Cyril Hrubis
2016-06-23 13:58 ` George Spelvin
2016-06-23 14:10 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-06-23 15:11 ` Cyril Hrubis
2016-06-23 15:21 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-06-23 16:31 ` Cyril Hrubis [this message]
2016-06-26 19:00 ` Pavel Machek
2016-06-26 19:21 ` Arjan van de Ven
2016-06-26 20:02 ` Pavel Machek
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