Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Apr 2004 15:11:36 +0200 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] s390 (9/9): no timer interrupts in idle. |
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On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 02:44:17PM +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > > > > > > xtime is easy, that's interpolated anyway afaics. Jiffies would either > just > > jump some, which code needs to deal with anyway given that preempt can do > > the same, or would become an approximated thing as well based on the > other > > time keeping sources in the system. > > Unluckily no. xtime is not easy because the network stack uses this for > time stamps at several locations. Living in the past and time stamps for > network packets don't go together, do they?
I thought this got fixed last week. But as I said it's easy to interpolate.
> By the way I am planning to do a BOFS at the OLS in july where I'd like > to discuss exactly this kind of questions. Any chance that you'd be there > too?
quite possible, I haven't booked my flight yet tho [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |