Messages in this thread | | | From | David Mosberger <> | Date | Mon, 16 May 2005 13:58:53 -0700 | Subject | Re: IA64 implementation of timesource for new time of day subsystem |
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>>>>> On Mon, 16 May 2005 13:53:44 -0700, john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> said:
John> You've only pointed out two timesources that could want this John> (ITC and TSC), so I think its reasonable to do your jitter John> handling in the timesource driver. If there are other arches John> that have non hardware synced per-cpu counters, then it would John> be something to consider.
I think Christopher's point is that _all_ time-sources which require software syncing will need this since it is not possible to sync perfectly, even if there is no drift.
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