Re: 2.4.23aa2 (bugfixes and important VM improvements for the highend)

[Andi Kleen]

On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 17:23:19 +0100
Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> > [...] Only drawback is that if a timer tick is delayed for too long it
> > won't fix that, but I guess that's reasonable for a 1s resolution.
> 
> what do you mean by delayed?

Normal gettimeofday can "fix" lost timer ticks because it computes the true
offset to the last timer interrupt using the TSC or other means. xtime
is always the last tick without any correction. If it got delayed too much 
the result will be out of date.

-Andi
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