Re: [RFC] New timeofday proposal (v.A1)

[Christoph Lameter]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, john stultz wrote:

> Well, its not *that* bad. Similar to the ntp_scale() function, it would
> look something like:
>
> if (interval <= offset_len)
> 	return (interval * singleshot_mult)>>shift;
> else {
> 	cycle_t v1,v2;
> 	v1 = (offset_len * singleshot_mult)>>shift;
> 	v2 = (interval-offset_len)*adjusted_mult)>>shift;
> 	return v1+v2;
> }
>
> Where:
> 	singleshot_mult = original_mult + ntp_adj + ss_mult
> and
> 	adjusted_mult = original_mult + ntp_adj
>
>

Yuck. Do we support this kind of thing today? Support for periods of a
tick or so is not an issue right?

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