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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: davidm@hpl.hp.com
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>,
	john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
Subject: Re: time interpolation hooks
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 17:42:03 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030519174203.A7061@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16073.5555.158600.61609@napali.hpl.hp.com>; from davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com on Mon, May 19, 2003 at 10:34:43AM -0700

On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 10:34:43AM -0700, David Mosberger wrote:
> 
> struct time_interpolator {
> 	void (*update_wall_time) (long delta_nsec);
> 	void (*reset_wall_time) (long delta_nsec);
> 	unsigned long frequency;	/* frequency in counts/second */
> 	unsigned long drift;		/* drift in parts-per-million (?) */
> };

probably also a "get interpolated value" kind of thing ?
other than that it seems to match what I had in mind.
For the score we may need something creative; I'm not sure all timers
have a defined drift, otoh parts-per-million seems to be the
standard mechanism of reporting this.

Greetings,
   Arjan van de Ven

  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-19 17:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-16 21:23 time interpolation hooks Andrew Morton
2003-05-16 22:00 ` David Mosberger
2003-05-17  2:38   ` David S. Miller
2003-05-19 17:34     ` David Mosberger
2003-05-19 17:42       ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2003-05-19 18:35         ` David Mosberger
2003-05-19 18:57           ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-20  7:26             ` David Mosberger
2003-05-19 22:37       ` David S. Miller
2003-05-19 23:03         ` David Mosberger
2003-05-19 23:08           ` David S. Miller
2003-05-17  9:09 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-05-17 16:31 ` john stultz
2003-05-17 16:37   ` john stultz

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