Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750888AbVJTWGr (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:06:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750889AbVJTWGr (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:06:47 -0400 Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([12.44.186.158]:25336 "EHLO hermes.mvista.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750886AbVJTWGq (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:06:46 -0400 Message-ID: <435814F5.5080609@mvista.com> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 15:06:45 -0700 From: George Anzinger Reply-To: george@mvista.com Organization: MontaVista Software User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.7.12-1.3.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steven Rostedt Cc: Ingo Molnar , john stultz , tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Ktimer / -rt9 (+custom) monotonic_clock going backwards. References: <1129734626.19559.275.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> <1129747172.27168.149.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> <20051020073416.GA28581@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 547 Lines: 18 Steven Rostedt wrote: ~> Could this cause a 2 second drop backwards? > > A 2 second warp is _most_ likely an overflow issue with nanoseconds (not many seconds fit in a 32-bit long). ~ -- George Anzinger george@mvista.com HRT (High-res-timers): http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/ - 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/