Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264021AbUDVNMo (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Apr 2004 09:12:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264015AbUDVNMn (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Apr 2004 09:12:43 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:32490 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264021AbUDVNMY (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Apr 2004 09:12:24 -0400 Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 15:11:36 +0200 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] s390 (9/9): no timer interrupts in idle. Message-ID: <20040422131135.GA7589@devserv.devel.redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="UugvWAfsgieZRqgk" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1482 Lines: 46 --UugvWAfsgieZRqgk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 02:44:17PM +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > > > > > > xtime is easy, that's interpolated anyway afaics. Jiffies would either > just > > jump some, which code needs to deal with anyway given that preempt can do > > the same, or would become an approximated thing as well based on the > other > > time keeping sources in the system. > > Unluckily no. xtime is not easy because the network stack uses this for > time stamps at several locations. Living in the past and time stamps for > network packets don't go together, do they? I thought this got fixed last week. But as I said it's easy to interpolate. > By the way I am planning to do a BOFS at the OLS in july where I'd like > to discuss exactly this kind of questions. Any chance that you'd be there > too? quite possible, I haven't booked my flight yet tho --UugvWAfsgieZRqgk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAh8SExULwo51rQBIRAgXAAKCRIWN0xMqEs6MPYz7d3G9d2arj7ACfbzGj oTlVrzQqVnSjq9sAJTf+ZgE= =OCfR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --UugvWAfsgieZRqgk-- - 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/