On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Ulrich Windl wrote: > whatever the implementation is, at some point there must exist an interface > go get > and set "normal time", free of any jumps and jitter. That "frontend time" > will be > used a a base of correction. Basically that means time should be as monotonic > and > jitter free as possible for any measurement interval you like.
The interpolator provides such a time as xtime + offset and will self-tune to be as accurate as possible given fluctuations of the timer interrupt. It will even adapt to NTP interval variations. - 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/