public inbox for linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
To: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>,
	george anzinger <george@mvista.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	ia64 <linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: gettimeofday nanoseconds patch (makes it possible for the
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 01:16:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <16629.56037.120532.779793@napali.hpl.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1089852486.1388.256.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com>

>>>>> On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 17:48:06 -0700, john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> said:

  John> Although you still have the issue w/ NTP adjustments being
  John> ignored, but last time I looked at the time_interpolator code,
  John> it seemed it was being ignored there too, so at least your not
  John> doing worse then the ia64 do_gettimeofday(). [If I'm doing the
  John> time_interpolator code a great injustice with the above,
  John> someone please correct me]

The existing time-interpolator code for ia64 never lets time go
backwards (in the absence of a settimeofday(), of course).  There is
no need to special-case NTP.

With Christoph's changes, NTP is an issue again, however.

	--david

  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-15  1:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-14 16:41 gettimeofday nanoseconds patch (makes it possible for the posix-timer Christoph Lameter
2004-07-14 20:09 ` gettimeofday nanoseconds patch (makes it possible for the john stultz
2004-07-14 20:28   ` Christoph Lameter
2004-07-14 21:14     ` David Mosberger
2004-07-14 21:15     ` john stultz
2004-07-15  0:08       ` Christoph Lameter
2004-07-15  0:48         ` john stultz
2004-07-15  1:16           ` David Mosberger [this message]
2004-07-15  1:35             ` john stultz
2004-07-15  3:57               ` David Mosberger
2004-07-15 15:31             ` Christoph Lameter
2004-07-15 16:14               ` john stultz
2004-07-15 17:03                 ` Christoph Lameter
2004-07-15 17:18                   ` john stultz
2004-07-15 22:59   ` gettimeofday nanoseconds patch (makes it possible for the posix-timer George Anzinger
2004-07-16  2:44     ` gettimeofday nanoseconds patch (makes it possible for the Christoph Lameter
2004-07-14 21:09 ` gettimeofday nanoseconds patch (makes it possible for the posix-timer functions to return higher Matthew Wilcox
2004-07-14 21:27   ` gettimeofday nanoseconds patch (makes it possible for the Christoph Lameter

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=16629.56037.120532.779793@napali.hpl.hp.com \
    --to=davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com \
    --cc=clameter@sgi.com \
    --cc=george@mvista.com \
    --cc=johnstul@us.ibm.com \
    --cc=linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox