Re: Ktimer / -rt9 (+custom) monotonic_clock going backwards.

[john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>]

On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 02:03 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> With rc4-rt13 and changing cycle_t to u64, my machine ran all night
> without one backward step.  Since it use to show up after a couple of
> hours, I would say that this is the fix.

Great. I've committed that change to my tree already.


> John, Do you want me to take a crack at changing the periodic_hook into
> using the ktimer code?  I understand Ingo's kernel much more than you, but
> you definitely understand the timing code better than I.

If Thomas doesn't think its a good idea, then don't worry about it. I'd
be somewhat curious just how bad it is, but that can wait for now.

thanks
-john


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