On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 06:01:16AM -0800, Jacob Pan wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Nov 2015 14:23:24 +0100
> Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> wrote:

> > It looks like what you want is:
> > 
> >     hrtimer_forward(hrt, period);
> > 
> > unconditionally.

> In the ideal world yes. But my thinking was that timers may not be so
> accurate to deliver interrupts, over the time the timeout error may
> accumulate so that eventually timers will be out of sync.

Timers have a global time base. Even if individual deliveries have an
error, there is no accumulated error.

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