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Message-ID: <20060928211150.GA32393@elte.hu> Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:11:50 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> To: Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org> Subject: Re: [RFC] exponential update_wall_time * Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org> wrote: > > > add up to 1 second. Right now we slice it into HZ steps, but this > > > can be rather easily changed now. > > > > Right off, it seems it would then make sense to make the ntp "ticks" > > one second in length. And set the interval values accordingly. > > > > However, there might be clocksources that are incapable of running > > freely for a full second w/o overflowing. In that case we would need > > to set the interval values and the ntp tick length accordingly. It > > seems we need some sort of interface to ntp to define that base tick > > length. Would that be ok by you? > > I don't see how you want to do this without some rather complex > calculations. I doubt this will make anything easier. lets figure out a way to solve this in some manner - the loop of thousands of function calls on dynticks didnt look too well. Millions of kids will be grateful for it :-) Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.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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