Subject: Re: SMP & ntpd interaction?
To: Paul Kranenburg <pk@cs.few.eur.nl>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/17/2003 07:40:30
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 10:33:44AM +0100, Paul Kranenburg wrote:
> > The SPARC port needs an MP-capable microtime().
> >
> >
> > ok, i have some patches for this i am going to be testing
>
> I would be surprised to find that this is the cause of the time skew
> problem.
Well, both Alpha and i386 had time skew problems until the MP-safe
microtime() was implemented for them.
> It's much more likely the taking the kernel lock in the clock interrupt
> handler that is the problem.
...that is certainly a problem, tho, yes.
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>