Re: [PATCH] Re: time() glitch on 2.4.18: solved

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Tue Nov 05 2002 - 13:37:57 EST


On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 18:02, Jim Paris wrote:
> > > > + if (count > LATCH) {
> > >
> > > may be (count >= LATCH) would be even better ?
> >
> > Some PIT clones seem to hold the LATCH value momentarily judging by
> > other things that were triggered wrongly by >=
>
> If so, then that's a separate problem: the later code
>
> count = ((LATCH-1) - count) * TICK_SIZE;
> delay_at_last_interrupt = (count + LATCH/2) / LATCH;
>

It might be interesting to catch that case with a printk too and put
both in 2.5 and see what comes out in the wash yes

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