Re: [RFC] exponential update_wall_time

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> wrote:

> > > add up to 1 second. Right now we slice it into HZ steps, but this 
> > > can be rather easily changed now.
> > 
> > Right off, it seems it would then make sense to make the ntp "ticks" 
> > one second in length. And set the interval values accordingly.
> > 
> > However, there might be clocksources that are incapable of running 
> > freely for a full second w/o overflowing. In that case we would need 
> > to set the interval values and the ntp tick length accordingly. It 
> > seems we need some sort of interface to ntp to define that base tick 
> > length. Would that be ok by you?
> 
> I don't see how you want to do this without some rather complex 
> calculations. I doubt this will make anything easier.

lets figure out a way to solve this in some manner - the loop of 
thousands of function calls on dynticks didnt look too well. Millions of 
kids will be grateful for it :-)

	Ingo