From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger-Tang Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 18:10:40 +0000 Subject: Re: [RFC] timer_interrupt: Avoid device timeouts by freezing time if system froze Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On 9/19/05, Christoph Lameter wrote: > However, any mechanism like that will have a time running strangely fast > for awhile which may cause other subsystems to misbehave. That's already true due to NTP. > I still think that the proposed patch is the best compromise solution > since it restored the normal flow of time as soon as possible. I disagree. Time jumps are much worse than making time go slightly faster/slower for a period of time. What's even better, the timeouts you're seeing when making time jump almost certainly will just disappear, which is extremely nice. --david -- Mosberger Consulting LLC, voice/fax: 510-744-9372, http://www.mosberger-consulting.com/ 35706 Runckel Lane, Fremont, CA 94536