Re: Is the clockevent resolution fine-grained enough?

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Fri, 02 Mar 2007, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> I'm afraid you didn't quite understand what I was getting at. Say the
> user programs the frequency to be 109,000 Hz. That means a nominal clock
> interval of ~9174.3119 ns. Now the clockevent interface forces me to
> round it down to 9174 ns. That means the clock interrupts fall behind
> with respect to the other parts in the system that implement 109,000 Hz
> much more to the letter. The error grows by 34 µs every second so that
> after 8 hours, we are lagging by a whole second.

Shouldn't you switch to a design where these errors become jitter instead of
cumulative?

-- 
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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh
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