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Re: tst-nanosleep, tst-clock_nanosleep Failures
- From: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
- To: Steve Munroe <sjmunroe at us dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: libc-hacker at sources dot redhat dot com, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 21:30:15 +0200
- Subject: Re: tst-nanosleep, tst-clock_nanosleep Failures
- References: <OF8D96D34E.CEEBD0E0-ON86256D44.00687296-86256D44.0069C7EB@us.ibm.com>
Steve Munroe <sjmunroe@us.ibm.com> writes:
> Is anyone else seeing make check failures in tst-nanosleep and
> tst-clock_nanosleep?
>
> I see these fail at various times (7.5%+ failure rate) on PPC64 (both 2.4
> and 2.5) kernels running either PPC32 or PPC64 applications. These are all
> SMP machines. In each case the measured time averages 0.5 jiffies less
> than 1 second!
>
> The nanosleep code is in the kernel is arch independent so I would expect
> this test to fail on the SMP platforms?
Perhaps your clock is going wrong? The time keeping code is
architecture dependend...
Andreas
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