From: Khalid Aziz <khalid_aziz@hp.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] do_gettimeofday() fails to compensate for lost ticks
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 18:31:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-106442829701638@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-106442430128845@msgid-missing>
David Mosberger wrote:
> Not sure off-hand and I haven't looked at the 2.4 code-base in a
> while, but aren't we double-compensating in do_settimeofday()? There,
> we have:
>
> tv->tv_usec -= gettimeoffset();
> tv->tv_usec -= (jiffies - wall_jiffies) * (1000000 / HZ);
>
> Perhaps the second line just needs to go?
>
> --david
I bet you are right. I will try taking that line out.
--
Khalid
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-24 18:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-24 17:21 [PATCH] do_gettimeofday() fails to compensate for lost ticks Khalid Aziz
2003-09-24 18:02 ` David Mosberger
2003-09-24 18:17 ` Khalid Aziz
2003-09-24 18:21 ` Jesse Barnes
2003-09-24 18:29 ` David Mosberger
2003-09-24 18:31 ` Khalid Aziz [this message]
2003-09-24 18:58 ` Khalid Aziz
2003-09-24 19:25 ` David Mosberger
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