Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] adjust clock for lost ticks | From | john stultz <> | Date | Sun, 09 Jul 2006 14:25:37 -0700 |
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On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 22:02 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > A large number of lost ticks can cause an overadjustment of the clock. > To compensate for this we look at the current error and the larger the > error already is the more careful we are at adjusting the error. > As small extra fix reset the error when the clock is set. > > Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Roman, Spent the weekend testing this, dropping 99/100 ticks, and was able to hold decent sync w/ ntpd. Also the softlockup hang appears resolved as well (confirmed by Vladis). Thanks for sending this out.
I know its already in -mm, but: Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
-john
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