Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Sep 2005 15:03:58 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] ktimers subsystem |
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On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 tglx@linutronix.de wrote:
> sources. Another astonishing implementation detail of the current time > keeping is the fact that we get the monotonic clock (defined by POSIX as > a continous clock source which can not be set) by subtracting a variable > offset from the real time clock, which can be set by the user and > corrected by NTP or other mechanisms.
The benefit or drawback of that implementation depends which time is more important: realtime or monotonic time. I think the most used time value is realtime and not monotonic time. Having the real time value in xtime saves one addition when retrieving realtime. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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