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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt
    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.

    Using a 64-bit value is a pain on some (many?) 32-bit CPUs.
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