From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750799AbWDPGCg (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Apr 2006 02:02:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751213AbWDPGCg (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Apr 2006 02:02:36 -0400 Received: from mail16.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.197]:61656 "EHLO mail16.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750799AbWDPGCf (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Apr 2006 02:02:35 -0400 From: Con Kolivas To: Al Boldi Subject: Re: [patch][rfc] quell interactive feeding frenzy Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 16:02:21 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: ck list , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mike Galbraith References: <200604112100.28725.kernel@kolivas.org> <200604122127.20322.kernel@kolivas.org> <200604121825.55054.a1426z@gawab.com> In-Reply-To: <200604121825.55054.a1426z@gawab.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200604161602.22177.kernel@kolivas.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 13 April 2006 01:25, Al Boldi wrote: > Con Kolivas wrote: > > mean 68.7 seconds > > > > range 63-73 seconds. > > Could this 10s skew be improved to around 1s to aid smoothness? It turns out to be dependant on accounting of system time which only staircase does at the moment btw. Currently it's done on a jiffy basis. To increase the accuracy of this would incur incredible cost which I don't consider worth it. -- -ck