Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: NTP time sync | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Thu, 23 Nov 2006 22:00:05 +1100 |
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On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 11:54 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > [1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/3/28/358 > > What was the answer to Matt's last question in there? > If the existing user land does it already then > probably. If not then a good migration strategy would > be needed.
Couldn't we have a transition period by making the kernel not rely on interrupts ? if the NTP irq code just triggers a work queue, then all of a sudden, all of the RTC drivers can be used and the latency is small. That might well be a good enough solution and is very simple.
Ben
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