Re: gettimeofday nanoseconds patch (makes it possible for theposix-timer functions to return higher accuracy)

[David Mosberger]

>>>>> On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 18:35:20 -0700, john stultz <johnstul@xxxxxxxxxx> said:

  john> On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 18:16, David Mosberger wrote:
  >> >>>>> On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 17:48:06 -0700, john stultz
  >> <johnstul@xxxxxxxxxx> said:

  >>  The existing time-interpolator code for ia64 never lets time go
  >> backwards (in the absence of a settimeofday(), of course).  There
  >> is no need to special-case NTP.

  John> I guess I don't understand then, from my looking over it I
  John> didn't see where the time_interpolator_get_offset() is scaled
  John> back when NTP is slewing the clock.

Are you looking at Christoph's code?  My explanation applies to the
old interpolation-code...

	--david
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