Re: [PATCH] New x86_64 time code for 2.5.70

john stultz (johnstul@us.ibm.com)
11 Jun 2003 14:23:30 -0700

On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 13:10, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:

+ if (offset > tick_usec) {
+ lost = offset / tick_usec;
+ offset %= tick_usec;
+ }

Hmmm. Thats likely part to blame for the lost-ticks code not working. I
believe tick_usec is calculated USER_HZ rather then HZ, so you'll be off
by an order of magnitude. I ran into the exact same problem.

thanks
-john

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