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From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 01:16:21 +0000
Subject: Re: gettimeofday nanoseconds patch (makes it possible for the
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To: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
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>>>>> 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