Re: [patch 00/21] hrtimer - High-resolution timer subsystem

[Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>]

Hi,

On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, George Anzinger wrote:

> > You don't think the current behaviour is wrong.
> > 
> > 
> On of the issues I see with using your assumption is that moving the timer to
> an absolute clock after the initial expiry _may_ lead to additional
> qauntization errors, depending on how aligned the two clocks are.

What do you mean by "moving the timer to an an absolute clock"?

> I would guess, then, that either the non-absolute or the absolute timer
> behaves badly in the face of clock setting.  Could you provide a pointer to
> the NetBSD code so I can have a look too?

http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/kern/kern_time.c?rev=1.98&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
AFAICT TIMER_ABSTIME is only used to convert the relative value to an 
absolute value.

bye, Roman
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