Re: [Linux-ia64] kernel update (relative to 2.4.4)

David Mosberger
2001-05-09T14:06:53Z

>>>>> On Wed, 9 May 2001 08:38:42 -0500 (CDT), Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> said:

Jack> FYI, The IA64 system being built by SGI has multiple
Jack> nodes. The clocks on different nodes are not synchronized.

This means that (a) you'll have to disable gettimeofday()
interpolation in the kernel and (b) implement an alternate version of
the *clock* routines in libc. Does SN1 provides some other means to
obtain a system-wide fine-grained timestamp?

--david