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From: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>
To: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>,
	Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] timekeeping: Improved NOHZ frequency steering (v2)
Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 17:03:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170517150302.GI4156@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALAqxLWfPiEQsza2mik5NRLtaKbaPA3o0FdPffNbRfxtqt40KA@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 10:26:12AM -0700, John Stultz wrote:
> On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 8:14 AM, Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com> wrote:
> > I see this with real PHCs and PTP/NTP synchronization too. It's very
> > confusing when the timekeeping changes so much for no apparent reason.
> > If we can't remove the old vsyscalls yet, I was thinking maybe a new
> > flag could be added to adjtimex to report the error, so applications
> > can at least detect this problem and consider stepping the clock in
> > order to reset the error?
> >
> > Thoughts?
> 
> I'd rather not have short-term hacks that applications have to adapt.
> So I think we should drop the old vsyscall method in the near term.
> Sorry this sort of fell off my radar.

Ok. Sounds good.

> Do you have an updated set of patches you want to get ready to address
> the issue? We can get those reviewed while we increase the pressure on
> dropping the OLD_VSYSCALL implementations.

I'll send an RFC series shortly.

Thanks,

-- 
Miroslav Lichvar

      reply	other threads:[~2017-05-17 15:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-17  0:56 [PATCH 0/3] timekeeping: Improved NOHZ frequency steering (v2) John Stultz
2014-05-17  0:56 ` [PATCH 1/3] [RFC] timekeeping: Rework frequency adjustments to work better w/ nohz John Stultz
2014-05-17  0:56 ` [PATCH 2/3] [RFC] timekeeping: Use cached ntp_tick_length when accumulating error John Stultz
2014-05-17  0:56 ` [PATCH 3/3] [RFC] timekeeping: Calculate freq adjustment directly John Stultz
2014-05-19 10:14 ` [PATCH 0/3] timekeeping: Improved NOHZ frequency steering (v2) Miroslav Lichvar
2014-05-19 17:57   ` John Stultz
2014-05-20 10:26     ` Miroslav Lichvar
2014-07-08 11:08     ` Miroslav Lichvar
2014-07-16  4:02       ` John Stultz
2014-07-16  6:59         ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-07-16 11:57         ` Miroslav Lichvar
2017-05-12 15:14         ` Miroslav Lichvar
2017-05-12 17:26           ` John Stultz
2017-05-17 15:03             ` Miroslav Lichvar [this message]

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