From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>,
jdavis@accessline.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Bad rounding in timeval_to_jiffies [was: Re: Odd Timer behavior in 2.6 vs 2.4 (1 extra tick)]
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:53:32 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4267CC7C.10907@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504210752560.2344@ppc970.osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> If you calculate the expected timeout from the time-of-day in the caller,
> your drift not only goes away, but you'll actually be able to handle
> things like "oops, the machine is under load so I missed an event".
Does mainline have a high precision monotonic wallclock that is not
affected by time-of-day changes? Something like "nano/mico seconds
since boot"?
Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-21 15:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-08 17:39 Odd Timer behavior in 2.6 vs 2.4 (1 extra tick) jdavis
2005-04-08 22:19 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-04-21 2:58 ` [PATCH] Bad rounding in timeval_to_jiffies [was: Re: Odd Timer behavior in 2.6 vs 2.4 (1 extra tick)] Steven Rostedt
2005-04-21 3:40 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-04-21 8:51 ` Russell King
2005-04-21 10:51 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-04-21 14:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-21 15:34 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-04-21 15:53 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2005-04-21 16:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-22 2:54 ` Edgar Toernig
2005-04-29 21:28 ` Odd Timer behavior in 2.6 vs 2.4 (1 extra tick) Nish Aravamudan
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