Re: [REPORT] cfs-v4 vs sd-0.44

Rogan Dawes
2007-04-24T15:08:01Z

Chris Friesen wrote:
> Rogan Dawes wrote:
>
>> I guess my point was if we somehow get to an odd number of
>> nanoseconds, we'd end up with rounding errors. I'm not sure if your
>> algorithm will ever allow that.
>
> And Ingo's point was that when it takes thousands of nanoseconds for a
> single context switch, an error of half a nanosecond is down in the noise.
>
> Chris

My concern was that since Ingo said that this is a closed economy, with
a fixed sum/total, if we lose a nanosecond here and there, eventually
we'll lose them all.

Some folks have uptimes of multiple years.

Of course, I could (very likely!) be full of it! ;-)

Rogan