From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265200AbUGOBZ0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jul 2004 21:25:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266005AbUGOBYU (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jul 2004 21:24:20 -0400 Received: from palrel13.hp.com ([156.153.255.238]:3231 "EHLO palrel13.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265200AbUGOBQ1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jul 2004 21:16:27 -0400 From: David Mosberger MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16629.56037.120532.779793@napali.hpl.hp.com> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 18:16:21 -0700 To: john stultz Cc: Christoph Lameter , george anzinger , lkml , ia64 Subject: Re: gettimeofday nanoseconds patch (makes it possible for the posix-timer functions to return higher accuracy) In-Reply-To: <1089852486.1388.256.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> References: <1089835776.1388.216.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> <1089839740.1388.230.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> <1089852486.1388.256.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.18 under Emacs 21.3.1 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 Wed, 14 Jul 2004 17:48:06 -0700, john stultz said: John> Although you still have the issue w/ NTP adjustments being John> ignored, but last time I looked at the time_interpolator code, John> it seemed it was being ignored there too, so at least your not John> doing worse then the ia64 do_gettimeofday(). [If I'm doing the John> time_interpolator code a great injustice with the above, John> someone please correct me] The existing time-interpolator code for ia64 never lets time go backwards (in the absence of a settimeofday(), of course). There is no need to special-case NTP. With Christoph's changes, NTP is an issue again, however. --david