Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Dec 2005 00:03:54 +0100 (CET) | From | Roman Zippel <> | Subject | Re: [patch 00/21] hrtimer - High-resolution timer subsystem |
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Hi,
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, George Anzinger wrote:
> > You don't think the current behaviour is wrong. > > > > > On of the issues I see with using your assumption is that moving the timer to > an absolute clock after the initial expiry _may_ lead to additional > qauntization errors, depending on how aligned the two clocks are.
What do you mean by "moving the timer to an an absolute clock"?
> I would guess, then, that either the non-absolute or the absolute timer > behaves badly in the face of clock setting. Could you provide a pointer to > the NetBSD code so I can have a look too?
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/kern/kern_time.c?rev=1.98&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup AFAICT TIMER_ABSTIME is only used to convert the relative value to an absolute value.
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