From: Ducrot Bruno <ducrot-kk6yZipjEM5g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
To: Herbert Nachtnebel
<Herbert.Nachtnebel-8zxNtbQCHXIjuwv8T7myQQ@public.gmane.org>
Cc: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org,
p.a.richards-Y3tGgqFSo3OFxr2TtlUqVg@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: gettimeofday() moving backwards
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 12:39:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021219113904.GF4257@poup.poupinou.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B900970C7DD9474C972986EB3EC7C58F0D404F-PWLG29+z7hEKeIAE67mlpo2P0GrZ+RbP@public.gmane.org>
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 11:01:22AM +0100, Herbert Nachtnebel wrote:
> In 2.4 there exists CONFIG_ASYNC_TSC to help with such things.
Warn. Some libc are broken, and will hang. Be sure to update.
And mplayer when using win32 dll will segfault, also..
> I never tried it, but it should change the gettimeofday()
> system call to not use the TSC for time calculations. This
> results in a really slow system call since now it uses the PIT
> for every access, but the system time should be smoothly again.
ACPI timer could help, I guess.
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2002-12-19 10:01 gettimeofday() moving backwards Herbert Nachtnebel
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2002-12-19 11:39 ` Ducrot Bruno [this message]
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2002-12-18 21:23 Grover, Andrew
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2002-12-18 22:40 ` Dominik Brodowski
2002-12-18 19:53 Paul Richards
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2002-12-19 0:09 ` Pavel Machek
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