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SubjectRe: 2.4.23aa2 (bugfixes and important VM improvements for the high end)

* 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 delayed too much the result will be out of date.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.

Ingo
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