3.17 what?

Miroslav Lichvar <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 10:09:42AM +0000, David Taylor wrote:
> > In bug 2314, I reported that the jitter was always reported as 0 soon after
> > NTP had started, and this was traced to the Linux in use on the Raspberry Pi
> > being tickless.  Recompiling the kernel without the tickless option was a
> > work-round, but is it possible to get jitter values with a tickless system?
> 
> There was a problem with clock stability in the tickless mode on idle
> systems, which should be fixed or at least significantly improved in
> 3.17. I'm not sure how it could cause the jitter to be reported as
> zero though.
> 
> Can you try 3.17 or later and see if it's fixed? Also, it would be
> interesting to know if adding nohz=off to the kernel command line
> instead of recompiling works as a workaround too.
> 
> -- 
> Miroslav Lichvar

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