Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Aug 2005 07:07:57 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [RFC - 0/9] Generic timekeeping subsystem (v. B5) |
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On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Ulrich Windl wrote:
> whatever the implementation is, at some point there must exist an interface go get > and set "normal time", free of any jumps and jitter. That "frontend time" will be > used a a base of correction. Basically that means time should be as monotonic and > jitter free as possible for any measurement interval you like.
The interpolator provides such a time as xtime + offset and will self-tune to be as accurate as possible given fluctuations of the timer interrupt. It will even adapt to NTP interval variations. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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