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SubjectRe: [PATCH] New x86_64 time code for 2.5.70
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On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 10:47, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 17:33, john stultz wrote:
>
> > Let me know if you have any issues with this patch.
>
> Thanks, John. Your updated patch has survived some beating on my test
> systems. I've also applied Vojtech's fix to hpet_tick.

One little tweak, you're still subtracting tick_usec when calculating
offset. Doesn't cause any major problems since you're catching error
with the offset<0 switch. However we won't catch lost interrupts
properly if we're always negative.

thanks
-john


Patch for that should be:

--- 1.22/arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c Thu Jun 12 11:40:33 2003
+++ edited/arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c Thu Jun 12 11:42:43 2003
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@
vxtime.last = offset;
} else {
offset = (((tsc - vxtime.last_tsc) *
- vxtime.tsc_quot) >> 32) - tick_usec;
+ vxtime.tsc_quot) >> 32) - (USEC_PER_SEC / HZ);

if (offset < 0)
offset = 0;


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