Re: [RFC][PATCH] new timeofday core subsystem (v. A2)

[Christoph Lameter]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, john stultz wrote:

> Yep, performance is a big concern. Re-working ntp_scale() is still on my
> TODO list. I just didn't get to it in this release.

This is a hopeless endeavor if you look at the function.
Throw ntp_scale out and calculate a scaling factor during the ticks. At
tick time then you may forward the clock a few ns in order to correct it
otherwise monkey around with the scaling factor.

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