On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 12:06:14PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> > > > > >I've discovered that heavy use of vesafb can be a major source of clock
> > > > > >drift on my system, especially if I don't specify "ypan" or "ywrap". On my
> > > > >
> > > > > This is extremely interesting. What version of ntp are you using?
> > > >
> > > > Is vesafb one of the drivers which blocks interrupts for (many) tens
> > > > of milliseconds?
> > >
> > > Vesafb is happy to block interrupts for half a second.
> >
> > And has this been observed to cause clock drift?
>
> YEs. I've seen time running 3 times slower. Just do cat /etc/termcap
> with loaded PCI bus. Yesterday I lost 20 minutes during 2 hours -- I
> have been using USB (load PCI) and framebuffer.
> Pavel
Is it not possible to save/check TSC in timer interrupt to correct for
dropped interrupts ? (obviously only on machines that have a TSC ...)
P.
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