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On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, john stultz wrote:

> How about something like this?
> 
> 300 TSC 
> 200 HPET
> 200 CYCLONE
> 100 ACPI
> 050 PIT
> 010 JIFFIES
> 
> Then if the system has TSC issues (unsynced, cpufreq problems, etc), we
> can demote the TSC's priority to 50 and it will fall back nicely without
> manual intervention.

Oh, we are going to have flags for timesources? Then please also do the 
jitter thing.