From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>
Cc: shemminger@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] possible erronous use of tick_usec in do_gettimeofday
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 02:29:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3oeuxwa9x.fsf@averell.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <VOyG.w9.35@gated-at.bofh.it> (Joe Korty's message of "Tue, 25 Nov 2003 17:50:47 +0100")
Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com> writes:
> test10's version of do_gettimeofday is using tick_usec which is
> defined in terms of USER_HZ not HZ.
>
> Against 2.6.0-test10-bk1. Compiled, not tested, for comment only.
>
I added the changes to x86-64, but at least ping still complains
that the time is going backwards. The machine is running ntpd
and has a high drift (AMD 8111 chipset, doesn't have the most stable
timer in the world)
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-28 1:29 UTC|newest]
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2003-10-28 19:19 ` gettimeofday resolution seriously degraded in test9 David Mosberger-Tang
2003-10-28 19:59 ` Stephen Hemminger
2003-10-29 0:19 ` David Mosberger
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2003-11-28 1:29 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2003-10-28 0:29 john stultz
2003-10-28 1:17 ` Stephen Hemminger
2003-10-28 11:55 ` Gabriel Paubert
2003-10-28 18:21 ` Stephen Hemminger
2003-10-29 10:07 ` Gabriel Paubert
2003-10-29 19:38 ` Stephen Hemminger
2003-10-29 22:50 ` Peter Chubb
2003-10-30 21:33 ` George Anzinger
2003-10-30 21:52 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-10-30 23:15 ` Peter Chubb
2003-11-25 16:42 ` [RFC] possible erronous use of tick_usec in do_gettimeofday Joe Korty
2003-11-25 17:13 ` Stephen Hemminger
2003-11-25 19:57 ` George Anzinger
2003-11-25 21:12 ` Joe Korty
2003-11-25 23:26 ` George Anzinger
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