Subject: Re: [patch 06/10] 40x decrementer fixes

From: Sergei Shtylyov <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 18:12:57 +0400

Hello.

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

>>>    Why bother doing this?! This will only warrant you imprecise decrementer 
>>>interrupts while it should be interrupting at the precise period currently (if 
>>>you load PIT once)...
>>
>>    I.e. the error will only accumulate. NAK.

> No, it won't since the timebase is always used as the reference.

    I meant the error in the interrupt period itself (I know that this gets 
accounted for) but that was a thinko anyway...

> Ben.

WBR, Sergei