From: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: Joel Soete <soete.joel@scarlet.be>,
parisc-linux <parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org>
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] [PATCH] timer_interrupt and gettimeoffset.
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 13:31:22 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060903193122.GA20217@colo.lackof.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1157300093.3486.15.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com>
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 11:14:53AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> Since the timer interrupts miss so many ticks, halftick processing looks
> like a good idea to me.
I was going to argue halfticks are a bad idea.
They just make it all more complicated.
My last version of the rewrite patch does away with them complete.
> Thus, we have to assume gettimeoffset() can be
> negative by up to half a tick. The current processing in
> do_gettimeofday() already copes nicely with this.
It deals nicely _without_ halfticks too.
grant
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-30 16:38 Re:[parisc-linux] [PATCH] timer_interrupt and gettimeoffset Joel Soete
2006-08-30 16:52 ` [parisc-linux] " Grant Grundler
2006-08-30 20:23 ` Carlos O'Donell
2006-09-02 15:52 ` James Bottomley
2006-09-03 15:00 ` Carlos O'Donell
2006-09-03 15:17 ` James Bottomley
2006-09-03 16:14 ` James Bottomley
2006-09-03 19:31 ` Grant Grundler [this message]
2006-09-04 15:51 ` James Bottomley
2006-09-04 16:57 ` John David Anglin
2006-09-04 17:23 ` James Bottomley
2006-09-04 19:12 ` John David Anglin
2006-09-04 21:21 ` Grant Grundler
2006-09-04 22:47 ` James Bottomley
2006-09-04 23:52 ` John David Anglin
2006-09-05 5:12 ` Grant Grundler
2006-09-05 15:53 ` James Bottomley
2006-09-05 22:49 ` Grant Grundler
2006-09-05 22:59 ` James Bottomley
2006-09-05 23:41 ` John David Anglin
2006-09-06 0:24 ` John David Anglin
2006-09-03 19:38 ` Grant Grundler
2006-09-03 19:59 ` John David Anglin
2006-09-04 0:09 ` Grant Grundler
2006-09-04 0:58 ` John David Anglin
2006-09-04 3:51 ` John David Anglin
2006-09-04 15:49 ` James Bottomley
[not found] <44FDE867.3090204@scarlet.be>
2006-09-05 21:35 ` John David Anglin
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2006-08-30 4:48 Carlos O'Donell
2006-08-31 6:53 ` Grant Grundler
2006-08-31 18:52 ` Carlos O'Donell
2006-08-31 21:46 ` Grant Grundler
2006-09-03 14:54 ` Carlos O'Donell
2006-09-03 19:55 ` Grant Grundler
2006-09-03 20:29 ` James Bottomley
2006-09-03 20:30 ` Carlos O'Donell
2006-09-03 21:22 ` John David Anglin
2006-09-01 22:48 ` Grant Grundler
2006-09-01 22:59 ` Grant Grundler
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