Re: [PATCH] Bad rounding in timeval_to_jiffies [was: Re: Odd Timerbehavior in 2.6 vs 2.4 (1 extra tick)]

[Chris Friesen]

Linus Torvalds wrote:

> If you calculate the expected timeout from the time-of-day in the caller,
> your drift not only goes away, but you'll actually be able to handle 
> things like "oops, the machine is under load so I missed an event".

Does mainline have a high precision monotonic wallclock that is not 
affected by time-of-day changes?  Something like "nano/mico seconds 
since boot"?

Chris
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