Re: gettimeofday non-monotonic on SMP 2.3.47

From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Sat Mar 04 2000 - 10:05:13 EST


On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Boris Okun wrote:

>Does this mean that my solution is correct, or you still think that I
>just messed things up and thus masked the problem?

Your lost_ticks are wrong. Also I am not convinced you can get it right in
your way. At timer interrupt time you should record the TSC information of
both CPU not only of the CPU that is running the timer irq.

Andrea

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