Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] new timeofday core subsystem (v. A2) | From | john stultz <> | Date | Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:33:42 -0800 |
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On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 16:08 -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, john stultz wrote: > > Yep, performance is a big concern. Re-working ntp_scale() is still on my > > TODO list. I just didn't get to it in this release. > > This is a hopeless endeavor if you look at the function. > Throw ntp_scale out and calculate a scaling factor during the ticks. At > tick time then you may forward the clock a few ns in order to correct it > otherwise monkey around with the scaling factor.
We talked about this last time. I do intend to re-work ntp_scale() so its not a function call, much as you describe above.
hopelessly endeavoring, -john
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