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RE: SI-ia64: LSB.os exec tests



At 2002/7/22 10:19-0700  Wichmann, Mats D writes:
> > 
> > I think that the test is wrong, and will fail on any Linux machine
> > with HZ != 100.  With a higher click we have more play in the
> > numbers.  The itimer spec is a little vague on the exact semantics,
> > though.
> 
> Thanks for the pointer. What I read in the sus under
> setitimer/getitimer suggests that if the implementation
> can't precisely represent, e.g. 10,000 microseconds, it
> can round it up.  With a 100 Hz clock, it works out that
> it can precisely represent it, but not with a 1024 hz
> clock like the Itanium uses.  Thus I think I agree the
> test questionable, it should be allowing for up to a 
> one-tick overage.
> 
> In my error cases, I'm over by 736, 496 and 256 microseconds.
> One tick at 1024/sec is 977 microseconds, so I guess I
> think these tests pass :-)

I agree, this looks like a test suite bug to me.
Mats, could you submit a bug report about this?

Thanks,

Chris
-- 
cyeoh@au.ibm.com
IBM OzLabs Linux Development Group
Canberra, Australia


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