>>>>> On Mon, 16 May 2005 13:53:44 -0700, john stultz <[email protected]> said: John> You've only pointed out two timesources that could want this John> (ITC and TSC), so I think its reasonable to do your jitter John> handling in the timesource driver. If there are other arches John> that have non hardware synced per-cpu counters, then it would John> be something to consider. I think Christopher's point is that _all_ time-sources which require software syncing will need this since it is not possible to sync perfectly, even if there is no drift. --david - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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