From owner-freebsd-smp Tue Jun 30 11:28:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA08572 for freebsd-smp-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 11:28:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [195.8.133.1] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA08451 for ; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 11:28:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA15033; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 20:23:02 +0200 (CEST) To: John Hay cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: time problem? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 30 Jun 1998 20:15:28 +0200." <199806301815.UAA19361@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 20:23:02 +0200 Message-ID: <15031.899230982@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >I followed Tony Li's advice and started ntpd again on the machine with >no local reference clocks and the machine has now been up for more than >24 hours with no jumps at all, so it looks like it is calling nanotime() >from within the sio interrupt that causes the problems. :-( yes, that may not be entirely safe to do according to Bruce. >So what are my options then? Can I somehow run the sio interrupts at >a lower priority? I would really prefer to have the pps signal on the >serial port, because the port is already used to read the serial stream >from the GPS. I don't know :-) You're entering territory here where I have not yet managed to venture... I pressume you havn't used the PPS_SYNC stuff in the kernel (if not: don't!) And it doesn't happen if you run !SMP with the TSC timecounter, right ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message