Re: [patch 4/9] Remove the TSC synchronization on SMP machines

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Tue Feb 13 2007 - 18:56:36 EST


On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:

> The interaction with ntpd can be fixed and I've done it in the past
> once, although the fix wasn't all that nice.

It can be and was fixed by gradually moving time instead of jumping to
the new time. F.e. the time interpolator on ia64 gradually adapts the
intervals so that synchronization is obtained.

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