On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 17:14 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, john stultz wrote: > > > This is basically what I do in my patch. I directly apply the NTP > > adjustment to the timesource interval, and periodically increment the > > NTP state machine by the timesource interval when we accumulate it. > > Is there some way to tell the NTP code how much the time_interpolator time > deviates from xtime? > > If the NTP code would use getnstimeofday or > do_gettimeofday then it would already get interpolated time.
That seems a bit backwards, no? > The curious issue in the current arrangement is that the interpolator > knows much more accurately how much time has passed between interrupts > than the timer interrupt but it has no time to make that information > available to the NTP code. That is why I'm suggesting time_interpolator users to move to my code (when they're ready, of course :). thanks -john - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
