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From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] [PATCH] settimeofday() not synchronised with
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 22:19:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590723705331@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590709806076@msgid-missing>

>>>>> On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 13:39:25 +0100, Eric Piel <Eric.Piel@Bull.Net> said:

  >> I don't understand what does the line in settimeofday(): nsec -  >> (jiffies - wall_jiffies ) * (1000000000 / HZ);

  Eric> Finally I read the code to do the same thing for i386 (get and
  Eric> settimeofday()). This explains the meaning of this line, in
  Eric> the i386 it's associated with the equivalent line in
  Eric> do_gettimeofday()! On ia64 everything is done inside of
  Eric> gettimeoffset(). Therefore I'm now confident that suppressing
  Eric> this line is a Good Thing ;-) The patch doing it wrt the bk
  Eric> tree is attached.

Good catch.  I applied this patch.

Thanks,

	--david


      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-03-26 22:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-13 16:53 [Linux-ia64] [PATCH] settimeofday() not synchronised with gettimeofday() Eric Piel
2003-03-26 12:39 ` [Linux-ia64] [PATCH] settimeofday() not synchronised with Eric Piel
2003-03-26 22:19 ` David Mosberger [this message]

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