Re: 2.6.17-mm2 hrtimer code wedges at boot?

[Daniel Walker]

On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 03:13 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:

> It's a possibility, but the signed/unsigned usage is pretty much 
> intentional. The assumptation is that time only goes forward so nothing 
> there should become negative, only adjustments happen in both directions.
> It's really weird why it's getting completely so out of control early 
> during boot. It would be great if you could also test the patch below, it 
> should trigger closer to when it goes wrong and help to analyze the 
> problem (or at least rule out a number of possibilities).

I was reviewing these new ntp adjustment functions, and it seems like it
would be a lot easier to just switch to a better clocksource. These new
functions seems to compensate for a clock that has a high rating but is
actually quite poor..

Daniel

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