Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964902AbVJDSad (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Oct 2005 14:30:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964906AbVJDSad (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Oct 2005 14:30:33 -0400 Received: from e33.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.151]:24231 "EHLO e33.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964902AbVJDSac (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Oct 2005 14:30:32 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/2] Reduced NTP rework (part 2) From: john stultz To: Ulrich Windl Cc: Roman Zippel , lkml , Thomas Gleixner , George Anzinger In-Reply-To: <4342525D.31706.708950@Ulrich.Windl.rkdvmks1.ngate.uni-regensburg.de> References: <1127419198.8195.10.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> <4342525D.31706.708950@Ulrich.Windl.rkdvmks1.ngate.uni-regensburg.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 11:30:29 -0700 Message-Id: <1128450629.8195.398.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 678 Lines: 17 On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 09:58 +0200, Ulrich Windl wrote: > As playing with "tick" is considered obsolete by the NTP people, frequency errors > up to 500 PPM are corrected by the NTP kernel code. Thus, to provide continuous > time, you might be interested in adjusting tick interpolation (i.e. _use_ the > adjusted value whenever the clock is read). Not sure if I followed that. Could you go into more detail please? thanks -john - 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/