Re: [ANNOUNCE] ktimers subsystem

[Christoph Lameter]

On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> sources. Another astonishing implementation detail of the current time 
> keeping is the fact that we get the monotonic clock (defined by POSIX as 
> a continous clock source which can not be set) by subtracting a variable 
> offset from the real time clock, which can be set by the user and 
> corrected by NTP or other mechanisms.

The benefit or drawback of that implementation depends which time is more 
important: realtime or monotonic time. I think the most used time value is 
realtime and not monotonic time. Having the real time value in xtime 
saves one addition when retrieving realtime. 
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