[parisc-linux] [PATCH] timer_interrupt and gettimeoffset.

[Grant Grundler]

On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 11:14:53AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> Since the timer interrupts miss so many ticks, halftick processing looks
> like a good idea to me.

I was going to argue halfticks are a bad idea.
They just make it all more complicated.
My last version of the rewrite patch does away with them complete.

>   Thus, we have to assume gettimeoffset() can be
> negative by up to half a tick.  The current processing in
> do_gettimeofday() already copes nicely with this.

It deals nicely _without_ halfticks too.

grant