Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:03:45 -0700 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt |
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On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 01:41:44PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> AFAIK John simply wants to change jiffies to count in nanoseconds > since bootup and then call it "clock_monotonic".
Clocks and counter drift so calling it <prefix>seconds would be misleading. It would really only be good for approximate timing.
I think call it something arbitrary and work towards have a separate mechanism for time of day (which could end up being much more expensive to use but less frrequently needed).
> One 64 bit value no splitting into seconds and nanoseconds anymore.
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