Re: [ANNOUNCE] ktimers subsystem

From: Roman Zippel
Date: Fri Sep 23 2005 - 22:41:05 EST


Hi,

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Paul E. McKenney wrote:

> I believe Thomas is concerned about workloads that need a short-term
> stable timebase. For example, a process-control application might need
> to accurately measure a (say) 1500-millisecond time interval. Both
> user-programmability and NTP adjustments to a given timebase could
> destroy the needed measurement accuracy.

NTP adjustments a quite small and not applied all at once, this means as
soon as the time is synchronized, we could switch CLOCK_MONOTONIC to it.

bye, Roman
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