Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:00:00 +0800 From: David Xu <listlog2011@gmail.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> Cc: Alexander Kabaev <kan@freebsd.org>, threads@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org>, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pthread_cond_timedwait() broken in 9-stable? [possible answer] Message-ID: <4F3DB4A0.2080904@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4F3DB3AE.5000109@freebsd.org> References: <4F3C2671.3090808__7697.00510795719$1329343207$gmane$org@freebsd.org> <4F3D3E2D.9090100@FreeBSD.org> <4F3D6FDD.9050808@freebsd.org> <4F3D89CD.9050309@freebsd.org> <4F3DA27A.3090903@freebsd.org> <4F3DB3AE.5000109@freebsd.org>
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On 2012/2/17 9:55, Julian Elischer wrote: > > kern.timecounter.tick: 1 > kern.timecounter.choice: TSC-low(1000) i8254(0) HPET(950) > ACPI-fast(900) dummy(-1000000) > kern.timecounter.hardware: ACPI-fast > kern.timecounter.stepwarnings: 0 > > switching the machine from TSC_low to ACPI-fast fixes the problem. > > in 8.x it used to default to ACPI > but I used to switch it to "TSC" to get better performance. > > I wonder why TSC-low is now bad to use.. > maybe the TSCs are not as well sychronised as they were in 8.x? > maybe the pthreads code didn't get the memo about changing timers? > pthread code does not know timer setting, same as other code in kernel. ;-)
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