linux-kernel - Re: One of these things (CONFIG

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Date:	Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:06:21 +0000
From:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...com>
Cc:	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Matt Sealey <matt@...esi-usa.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ben Dooks <ben@...tec.co.uk>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Linux ARM Kernel ML <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: One of these things (CONFIG_HZ) is not like the others..

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 12:13:46PM +0530, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> To avoid the server latency, we didn't do continuous sync. The time was  
> synced in the beginning and after 62.5 hours (#ntpd -qg) and the drift
> of about 174 ms was observed. As you said this could be because of
> server sync time along with probably some addition from system calls
> from #ntpd. As mentioned, the other run with HZ = 128 which started
> 15 hours 20 mins is already showing about 24 mS drift now. I will
> let it run for couple of more days just to have similar duration run.

Hmm.  I wonder if ntpd -qg will cause ntp to read the drift file and
adjust the kernel time keeping using that information...
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