Re: [PATCH] adjust clock for lost ticks

[john stultz]

On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 22:02 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> A large number of lost ticks can cause an overadjustment of the clock.
> To compensate for this we look at the current error and the larger the
> error already is the more careful we are at adjusting the error.
> As small extra fix reset the error when the clock is set.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Roman, 
	Spent the weekend testing this, dropping 99/100 ticks, and was able to
hold decent sync w/ ntpd. Also the softlockup hang appears resolved as
well (confirmed by Vladis). Thanks for sending this out.

I know its already in -mm, but:
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@xxxxxxxxxx>

-john

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