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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
To: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] possible erronous use of tick_usec in do_gettimeofday
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 09:13:53 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031125091353.00dd144a.shemminger@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031125164237.GA15498@rudolph.ccur.com>

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 11:42:38 -0500
Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com> wrote:

> test10's version of do_gettimeofday is using tick_usec which is
> defined in terms of USER_HZ not HZ.
> 
> Against 2.6.0-test10-bk1.  Compiled, not tested, for comment only.

Your right. tick_usec is in user hz so the value of max_ntp_tick would be
too large.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-25 17:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-27 23:44 gettimeofday resolution seriously degraded in test9 Joe Korty
2003-10-28  0:15 ` Stephen Hemminger
2003-10-28  0:29 ` john stultz
2003-10-28  1:17   ` Stephen Hemminger
2003-10-28 11:55     ` Gabriel Paubert
2003-10-28 18:21       ` Stephen Hemminger
2003-10-29 10:07         ` Gabriel Paubert
2003-10-29 19:38           ` Stephen Hemminger
2003-10-29 22:50             ` Peter Chubb
2003-10-30 21:33               ` George Anzinger
2003-10-30 21:52                 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-10-30 22:50                   ` Chris Friesen
2003-10-30 23:15                   ` Peter Chubb
2003-10-30 23:47                     ` George Anzinger
2003-11-25 16:42                     ` [RFC] possible erronous use of tick_usec in do_gettimeofday Joe Korty
2003-11-25 17:13                       ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2003-11-25 19:57                       ` George Anzinger
2003-11-25 21:12                         ` Joe Korty
2003-11-25 23:26                           ` George Anzinger
2003-10-30 23:27                   ` gettimeofday resolution seriously degraded in test9 George Anzinger
2003-10-30 10:39             ` Gabriel Paubert
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2003-11-28  1:29                     ` [RFC] possible erronous use of tick_usec in do_gettimeofday Andi Kleen

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