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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: gettimeofday resolution seriously degraded in test9
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 11:59:17 -0800
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On 28 Oct 2003 11:19:21 -0800
David Mosberger-Tang <David.Mosberger@acm.org> wrote:

> >>>>> On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 19:30:13 +0100, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> 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.
> 
> 	--david

Because it has not been used yet outside of ia64.  It would be worth investigating
post 2.6.0 if it could be shown to be as fast and more correct.  Several people
have talked about redoing the existing mess, but now is not the time to attack
this dragon...