Re: [RFC][PATCH] new timeofday arch specific hooks (v. A2)

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 16:17 -0800, john stultz wrote:

> Hmm. In my code, I move the interval delta (similar to your pre-scale
> offset) to system_time (seems to be equivalent to the post-scale) at
> each call to timeofday_interrupt_hook(). So while 64 bits are normally
> used, you could probably get away doing the interval delta calculations
> in 32bits if your timesource frequency isn't too large. This would only
> be done in the arch-specific 32bit vsyscall code, right?

Yes. Looks ok so far, but I need to make sure by looking at the code.
I'll let you know.

> > > I still want to support vsyscall gettimeofday, although it does have to
> > > be done on an arch-by-arch basis. It's likely the systemcfg data
> > > structure can still be generated and exported. I'll look into it and see
> > > what can be done.
> > 
> > Well, since it only contains the prescale and postscale offsets and the
> > scaling value, it only needs to be updated when they change, so a hook
> > here would be fine.
> 
> Great, thats what I was hoping.
> 
> thanks
> -john
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>