Yo Hal! On Tue, 06 Jun 2017 17:23:56 -0700 Hal Murray <hmur...@megapathdsl.net> wrote:
> > I have run tests removing the fuzz code. Never found any change
> > with or without the clock fuzz. I was too scared to remove it.
>
> It's scattered all over the place so I'm impressed if you really
> removed it all.
I did not remove it, I just set the fuzz to zero. :-)
> The code that I was looking at in ntp_packetstamp had a run time test.
> if (sys_tick > measured_tick && sys_tick > S_PER_NS) {
> and sys_tick == measured_tick on one sample system so the next few
> lines were never executed.
But is i don't think sys_tick == measured_tick is always rtue.
> If Eric and Mark agree that we don't need to support big tick OSes,
> I'll look harder at trying to figure out what it does to see if there
> is anything useful we need to save.
The fuzz borders on a religious topic, cloaked in various statistical
arguments. You'll need extra-ordinary proof.
RGDS
GARY
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