Re: [RFC][PATCH] new timeofday arch specific hooks (v. A2)

[Christoph Lameter]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:

> Why not add an if at the start of gettimeofday to check when the last
> ntp updates has been done and if it has been too long since the last time
> then call ntp_scale ? That way the update isn't done on every call to
> gettimeofday and we don't depend on the regular timer tick.

Because ia64 does not support calling arbitrary C functions in fastcalls.

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