Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 5 Mar 2004 17:49:02 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.23aa2 (bugfixes and important VM improvements for the high end) |
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* Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
> > > [...] Only drawback is that if a timer tick is delayed for too long it > > > won't fix that, but I guess that's reasonable for a 1s resolution. > > > > what do you mean by delayed? > > Normal gettimeofday can "fix" lost timer ticks because it computes the > true offset to the last timer interrupt using the TSC or other means. > xtime is always the last tick without any correction. If it got > delayed too much the result will be out of date.
yeah - i doubt the softirq delay is a real issue.
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