Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:53:32 -0600 | From | Chris Friesen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Bad rounding in timeval_to_jiffies [was: Re: Odd Timer behavior in 2.6 vs 2.4 (1 extra tick)] |
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> If you calculate the expected timeout from the time-of-day in the caller, > your drift not only goes away, but you'll actually be able to handle > things like "oops, the machine is under load so I missed an event".
Does mainline have a high precision monotonic wallclock that is not affected by time-of-day changes? Something like "nano/mico seconds since boot"?
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