Re: gettimeofday non-monotonic on SMP 2.3.47

From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Sun Feb 27 2000 - 20:32:09 EST


On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Boris Okun wrote:

>in synchronize_tsc_bp because of 0 divide. My understanding is that this
>happens since fast_gettimeoffset_quotient is 0 now. So I put
>fast_gettimeoffset_quotient = calibrate_tsc();
>
>before #ifdef 0 in your patch.

Correct.

>If you have any suggestions, please let me know.

Hmm maybe your timer chip is not reporting the time passed since the last
timeout correctly.

Andrea

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