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Date:      Fri, 06 Oct 2000 14:54:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Valentin Nechayev <netch@segfault.kiev.ua>
Cc:        phk@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   RE: microuptime() went backwards: possible diagnosis
Message-ID:  <XFMail.001006145422.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20001007001336.A346@nn.kiev.ua>

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On 06-Oct-00 Valentin Nechayev wrote:
> Following is partial dmesg output from 5.0(13)-CURRENT-20001002 kernel
> with advanced debugging prints:

The problem was that the interrupt threads for the clk interrupt introduced
enough latency that occasionally (mostly during a heavy load of interrupts)
tc_windup() wasn't called soon enough to update the timecounter.  Making
clock interrupts not be threaded fixes this problem.

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