From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@linuxcare.com.au>
To: "Christopher Friesen" <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: gettimeofday() non-monotonic on uniprocessor system with ntp turned off?
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 14:51:42 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14912.11470.540247.408234@diego.linuxcare.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A3E336C.B29BBA89@nortelnetworks.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012180711330.89819-100000@beppo.feral.com> <3A3E336C.B29BBA89@nortelnetworks.com>
Christopher Friesen writes:
> I am having a little bit of a problem. I'm on a single processor G4 system
> running 2.2.17 and I do not have ntp turned on. However, successive calls to
> gettimeofday() occasionally return results that make it look as though time was
> running backwards.
Looking at the code in the kernel, I can't see why this would happen.
Could you send me the code for your test program so I can chase this?
Paul.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-12-20 4:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-16 19:07 ServerWorks docs? Rico Tudor
2000-12-16 20:00 ` davej
2000-12-17 2:29 ` Jeff Nguyen
2000-12-18 10:04 ` Rico Tudor
2000-12-18 15:15 ` Matthew Jacob
2000-12-18 15:55 ` gettimeofday() non-monotonic on uniprocessor system with ntp turned off? Christopher Friesen
2000-12-20 3:51 ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
2001-01-04 23:44 ` Anyone else interested in a high-precision monotonic counter? Christopher Friesen
2001-01-05 3:29 ` Manfred Bartz
2001-01-05 14:37 ` Christopher Friesen
2001-01-12 4:16 ` Manfred Bartz
2000-12-19 7:10 ` ServerWorks docs? Jeff Nguyen
2000-12-17 3:54 ` Dan Hollis
2000-12-17 0:25 ` J . A . Magallon
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