time jumps forward/backwards

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Sep 1 20:49:14 EST 2009


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 at 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 ?

Cheers,
Ben.




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