Re: [PATCH] New x86_64 time code for 2.5.70

[john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>]

On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 14:36, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 14:23, john stultz wrote:
> 
> > Hmmm. Thats likely part to blame for the lost-ticks code not working. I
> > believe tick_usec is calculated USER_HZ rather then HZ, so you'll be off
> > by an order of magnitude. I ran into the exact same problem. 
> 
> Unlikely.  On my systems, the offset values are off by three orders of
> magnitude, and are always negative.  There's a more basic error
> somewhere before that test.

Ok, that was just the first thing I noticed. Let me dig in and see what
I can find. 


> The actual impact of lost jiffies is pretty low, though.  I've beaten
> vigorously on my systems with the time patch, and they don't lose timer
> interrupts.

Hmm. In my (very quick) testing I'm seeing very frequent 10,000us
inconsistencies. This is w/ and w/o the vsyscall code enabled, so I'm
not sure whats causing it yet. I'll let you know if I trip over
anything.

thanks
-john