Re: Voyager subarchitecture for 2.5.46

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

Hi!

>  - when the next gettimeofday happens, we can check the sequence number 
>    and the old gettimeofday, and verify that we get monotonic behaviour in 
>    the absense of explicit date setting. This allows us to handle small 
>    problems gracefully ("return the old time + 1 ns" to make it 
>    monotonic even when we screw up), _and_ it will also act as a big clue
>    for us that we should try to synchronize - so that we basically never 
>    need to worry about "should I check the clocks" (where "basically 
>    never" may be "we check the clocks every minute or so if nothing else 
>    happens")

Unfortunately, this means "bye bye vsyscalls for gettimeofday".

								Pavel
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