From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261827AbTJ2ATu (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2003 19:19:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261840AbTJ2ATu (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2003 19:19:50 -0500 Received: from palrel10.hp.com ([156.153.255.245]:58073 "EHLO palrel10.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261827AbTJ2ATs (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2003 19:19:48 -0500 From: David Mosberger MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16287.1953.281434.932309@napali.hpl.hp.com> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 16:19:45 -0800 To: Stephen Hemminger Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: gettimeofday resolution seriously degraded in test9 In-Reply-To: <20031028115917.124a76bf.shemminger@osdl.org> References: <20031028115917.124a76bf.shemminger@osdl.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under Emacs 21.2.1 Reply-To: davidm@hpl.hp.com X-URL: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/David_Mosberger/ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 11:59:17 -0800, Stephen Hemminger said: Stephen> On 28 Oct 2003 11:19:21 -0800 Stephen> David Mosberger-Tang wrote: >> >>>>> On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 19:30:13 +0100, Stephen Hemminger said: Stephen> This should work better. Patch against 2.6.0-test9 >> Why not use the time-interpolator interface defined in timex.h? It >> should handle such things without any special hacks. Stephen> Because it has not been used yet outside of ia64. It would Stephen> be worth investigating post 2.6.0 if it could be shown to Stephen> be as fast and more correct. Several people have talked Stephen> about redoing the existing mess, but now is not the time to Stephen> attack this dragon... OK, I certainly agree that it's not something that should be done in a rush, so it's definitely post 2.6.0. --david