On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 17:27 +0100, Roman Zippel wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 December 2006 02:32, john stultz wrote:
>
> > > I know and all you have to change in the ntp and some related code is to
> > > replace HZ there with a variable, thus make it changable, so you can
> > > increase the update interval (i.e. it becomes 1s/hz instead of 1s/HZ).
> >
> > Untested patch below. Does this vibe better with you are suggesting?
>
> Yes, thanks.
> tick_nsec doesn't require special treatment, in the middle term it's obsolete
> anyway, it could be replaced with (current_tick_length() >>
> TICK_LENGTH_SHIFT) and current_tick_length() being inlined.
If NTP_INTERVAL_FREQ is different then HZ, then tick_nsec still has a
different meaning then (current_tick_length() >> TICK_LENGTH_SHIFT).
So since tick_nsec is still used in quite a few places, so I'm hesitant
to pull it.
> NTP_INTERVAL_FREQ could be a real variable (so it can be initialized at
> runtime), it's already gone from all important paths.
Wait, so you're suggesting NTP_INTERVAL_FREQ be a dynamic variable
instead of a constant? Curious, could you give a bit more detail on why?
> In the short term I'd prefered a clock would store its frequency instead of
> using NTP_INTERVAL_LENGTH in clocksource_calculate_interval(), so it doesn't
> has to be derived there.
I don't follow this at all. clocksources do store their own frequency
(via mult/shift). Could you explain?
thanks
-john
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