Re: 2.4.23aa2 (bugfixes and important VM improvements for the high end)

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 05:23:19PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> what do you mean by delayed?

if the timer softirq doesn't run and wall_jiffies doesn't increase, we
won't be able to account for it, so time() will return a time in the
past, it will potentially go backwards precisely 1/HZ seconds every tick
that isn't executing the timer softirq. I tend to agree for a 1sec
resultion that's not a big deal though if you run:

	gettimeofday()
	time()

gettimeofday may say the time of the day is 17:39:10 and time may tell
17:39:09
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