Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/4] new timeofday x86-64 arch specific changes (v. B1) | From | john stultz <> | Date | Fri, 03 Jun 2005 12:21:20 -0700 |
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On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 12:02 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, john stultz wrote: > > > How about something like this? > > > > 300 TSC > > 200 HPET > > 200 CYCLONE > > 100 ACPI > > 050 PIT > > 010 JIFFIES > > > > Then if the system has TSC issues (unsynced, cpufreq problems, etc), we > > can demote the TSC's priority to 50 and it will fall back nicely without > > manual intervention. > > Oh, we are going to have flags for timesources? Then please also do the > jitter thing.
Huh? There are no flags here, just the priority values that are already in the structure. When TSC timesource driver itself notes a problem with the system, it can lower its own priority value.
thanks -john
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