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From: Benjamin Gamsa <ben@somanetworks•com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel•crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba•org>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org,
	Sean MacLennan <smaclennan@pikatech•com>
Subject: Re: time jumps forward/backwards
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 07:20:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A9D038F.90605@somanetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1251802154.14675.346.camel@pasglop>

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 23:57 -0400, Benjamin Gamsa wrote:
>> Sean MacLennan wrote:
>>> On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:20:00 -0400
>>> Benjamin Gamsa <ben@somanetworks•com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> For what it's worth, the problem occurs even when ntp is not even
>>>> started.
>>> This is grasping, but could it have anything to do with the jiffies
>>> wrapping near startup?
>>>
>> I don't know how to test it, but I don't think so, since there are 
>> multiple of these glitches over an extended period of time.
> 
> I'm not familiar with all the FSL processor variants, but is this
> an UP or an SMP platform ? In the later case, are all the core timebases
> properly synchronized ?
> 

This a UP with a single e500 core.

	ben

  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-01 11:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-31 21:53 time jumps forward/backwards Ben Gamsa
2009-08-31 23:45 ` Paul Mackerras
2009-09-01  0:01   ` Benjamin Gamsa
2009-09-01  0:09     ` Benjamin Gamsa
2009-09-01  2:20       ` Benjamin Gamsa
2009-09-01  2:31         ` Sean MacLennan
2009-09-01  3:57           ` Benjamin Gamsa
2009-09-01 10:49             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-09-01 11:20               ` Benjamin Gamsa [this message]
2009-09-03 12:49                 ` Ben Gamsa

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