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

[James Bottomley]

On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 13:31 -0600, Grant Grundler wrote:
> 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.

I tried this on ioz ... you can simply remove the halftick code in my
version of the patch.  What happens is that we start to drop astonishing
number of ticks occasionally ... it looks like we're getting wrap
conditions again.

James