Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261448AbVARWWM (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jan 2005 17:22:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261449AbVARWWM (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jan 2005 17:22:12 -0500 Received: from mail.inter-page.com ([207.42.84.180]:36363 "EHLO mail.inter-page.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261448AbVARWWI (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jan 2005 17:22:08 -0500 From: "Robert White" To: , "'john stultz'" Cc: "'Linux kernel'" Subject: RE: New Linux System time proposal Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:21:38 -0800 Organization: Casabyte, Inc. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Importance: Normal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 657 Lines: 17 I thought it was not at all unusual to miss a jiffy here or there due to interrupt locking/latency; plus jiffies is expressed with respect to the value of HZ so you would need to do some deviding in there somewhere. Where HZ has been adjusted up, or on slower embedded boxes where interrupts could be blocked longer, you would lose time. Or are you not talking about real-word time? Rob White, Casabyte, Inc. - 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/