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  2. Comment #95

Comment 95 for bug 620074

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In , thomas.pi (thomas.pi-linux-kernel-bugs) wrote :

(In reply to comment #81)
> echo hpet > current_clocksource
>
> and things are back to normal.

I got a crash, while tried to set jiffies clocksource while linux was running.

There is now a improvement in the process and thread test with clock source jiffies. Here the result. The performance is nearby as in 2.6.20.

Linux bugs-laptop 2.6.28t61p4 #5 SMP Wed Jan 21 14:30:24 CET 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
min:0.000ms|avg:0.000-0.000ms|mid:0.000ms|max:945.000ms|duration:24.354s
min:0.000ms|avg:0.000-0.000ms|mid:0.000ms|max:466.000ms|duration:24.206s
min:0.000ms|avg:0.000-0.000ms|mid:0.000ms|max:220.000ms|duration:47.452s
min:0.000ms|avg:0.000-0.000ms|mid:0.000ms|max:870.000ms|duration:34.105s
min:0.000ms|avg:0.000-0.000ms|mid:0.000ms|max:479.000ms|duration:36.610s
min:0.000ms|avg:0.000-0.000ms|mid:0.000ms|max:212.000ms|duration:77.449s