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Date:      Tue, 30 Jun 1998 20:23:02 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za>
Cc:        freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: time problem? 
Message-ID:  <15031.899230982@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 30 Jun 1998 20:15:28 %2B0200." <199806301815.UAA19361@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> 

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>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

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