On Thursday 31 January 2013 21:02:00 Santosh Shilimkar wrote: > The timekeeping doesn't depend on HZ value in presence of fine grained > clocksource and hence there should not be any time drift because of HZ > value which was chosen to be divisor of 32768. > > OMAP has been using HZ = 128 value to avoid any time drift issues > because of 32768 HZ clock. But with various measurements performed > with HZ = 100, no time drift is observed and it also proves the > point about HZ not having impact on time keeping on OMAP. > > Very informative thread on this topic is here: > https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/1/29/435 > > Special thanks to John Stulz, Arnd Bergmann and Russell King for their > valuable suggestions. > > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> > Cc: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Thanks so much for looking into this! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
