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From: George Anzinger <george@mvista.com>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>
Cc: bhavesh@avaya.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.11 timeval_to_jiffies() wrong for ms resolution timers
Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 10:54:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4294BBE8.3030004@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4294B7ED.2030307@nortel.com>

Chris Friesen wrote:
> George Anzinger wrote:
> 
>> Bhavesh P. Davda wrote:
>>
>>> setitimer for 20ms was firing at 21ms
> 
> 
>> If we do NOT account for this PIT issue, the result is a time drift 
>> that is outside of what ntp can handle...
> 
> 
> Still, it is non-intuitive that a multi-GHz machine can't wake you up 
> more accurately than 1ms.
> 
> What about telling it to wake up a jiffy earlier, then checking whether 
> the scheduling lag was enough to cause it to have waited the full 
> specified time.  If not, put it to sleep for another jiffy.

The user is, of course, free to do what ever they would like.  For a more 
complete solution you might be interested in HRT (High Res Timers).  See my 
signature below.
> 
-- 
George Anzinger   george@mvista.com
High-res-timers:  http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/

  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-25 17:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-24 22:59 2.6.11 timeval_to_jiffies() wrong for ms resolution timers Bhavesh P. Davda
2005-05-25 17:21 ` George Anzinger
2005-05-25 17:37   ` Chris Friesen
2005-05-25 17:54     ` George Anzinger [this message]
2005-05-25 18:07       ` Chris Friesen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-05-25 19:06 Davda, Bhavesh P (Bhavesh)
2005-05-25 20:02 ` George Anzinger
2005-05-25 21:41   ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-26 17:04   ` Olivier Croquette
2005-05-26 18:10     ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-05-26 18:19       ` Lee Revell
2005-05-26 19:24         ` George Anzinger
2005-05-26 19:32           ` Lee Revell
2005-05-25 19:16 Davda, Bhavesh P (Bhavesh)

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