[cgl_discussion] [Timers evaluation/Validation] Notes from Ti
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Craig Thomas
craiger at osdl.org
Wed Jan 22 14:33:51 PST 2003
I was thinking on a much smaller granularity than NTP. If we need to
measure milliseconds or microseconds, NTP may not be the best way.
I am unfamiliar with what can be done, so I don't know the answer here.
I was just thinking out loud...
On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 13:50, Fleischer, Julie N wrote:
> > Craig Thomas wrote:
> > I don't mean to make a joke of this (I am really serious), but how do
> > you time a timer? This will be a hard problem to solve. Trying to
> > determine if timers respond in an acceptable fashion under
> > heavy stress
> > would mean that you need to make sure that they keep their time. But
> > how to you measure how they keep their time?
> >
> > With another set of (non posix) timers, perhaps?
>
> It's good that you bring this up. My logic was (and feel free to point out
> holes as some of it was just assumptions I didn't think about questioning
> yet):
>
> - For timers, they need to function relative to a clock. Even if the clock
> is off, if the timer expires at the correct time relative to that clock, I
> would consider that correct behavior. So, I can "time a timer" with the
> clock used for the timer.
>
> - For clocks, we'll have to use an external known-good clock somehow (Like
> maybe run clock tests and compare time via NTP.).
>
> - Julie
>
> **These views are not necessarily those of my employer.**
>
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