Btw, just in case people worry: don't worry too much. I use ntpd every
day, and it works beautifully. But I know that at least early 2.1.x SMP
kernels had horribly problems with ntpd - losing synchronization
completely several times a day, and not ever really getting truly good
time.
I suspect the same is true of 2.0.x SMP - the problem was due to simply
horribly bad timer tick latencies under any kind of load, due to both
timer interrupts and the gettimeofday() functions using the single kernel
lock. Any heavy kernel activity just killed it.
The point still holds: in order to solidly support NTP in a reasonable
fashion we need to have a ntp maintainer that is responsive and actively
works on problems and is recognized as _the_ maintainer. But that doesn't
mean that the current stuff is a complete disaster, it just means that I
fully understand why some NTP people don't like the Linux situation.
Linus
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