Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262298AbVAZQ64 (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jan 2005 11:58:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262417AbVAZQ4I (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jan 2005 11:56:08 -0500 Received: from omx3-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.20]:48266 "EHLO omx3.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262431AbVAZQzr (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jan 2005 11:55:47 -0500 Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 08:52:12 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: Martin Schwidefsky cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Andi Kleen , albert@users.sourceforge.net, Max Asbock , Anton Blanchard , Darren Hart , David Mosberger , "Darrick J. Wong" , George Anzinger , Patricia Gaughen , john stultz , keith maanthey , Chris McDermott , Dominik Brodowski , lkml , mahuja@us.ibm.com, Nishanth Aravamudan , Paul Mackerras , Tim Schmielau , Ulrich Windl Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] new timeofday arch specific hooks (v. A2) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 650 Lines: 14 On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > Why not add an if at the start of gettimeofday to check when the last > ntp updates has been done and if it has been too long since the last time > then call ntp_scale ? That way the update isn't done on every call to > gettimeofday and we don't depend on the regular timer tick. Because ia64 does not support calling arbitrary C functions in fastcalls. - 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/