Re: [PATCH 3/4] new timeofday x86-64 arch specific changes (v. B1)

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Fri Jun 03 2005 - 14:07:45 EST


On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, john stultz wrote:

> How about something like this?
>
> 300 TSC
> 200 HPET
> 200 CYCLONE
> 100 ACPI
> 050 PIT
> 010 JIFFIES
>
> Then if the system has TSC issues (unsynced, cpufreq problems, etc), we
> can demote the TSC's priority to 50 and it will fall back nicely without
> manual intervention.

Oh, we are going to have flags for timesources? Then please also do the
jitter thing.

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