time issues and ZFS

[Andriy Gapon]

on 27/01/2013 19:27 Adrian Chadd said the following:
> On 26 January 2013 02:15, Andriy Gapon <avg at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> on 23/01/2013 18:20 Adrian Chadd said the following:
>>> It may be a quirk of an older 9.x, which is fixed in -HEAD. It may be
>>> a quirk of the older generation celeron hardware - in which case, we
>>> need to tell the user somehow..
>>
>> This is not software related at all.  It's the hardware feature (or its absence).
>> I wonder if your celerons report PBE feature.
> 
> What am I looking for?

PBE in dmesg

> And personally, requiring (much) more recent hardware to get
> sane/correct (btu inefficient) behaviour out of the timekeeping
> framework is a little .. suboptimal. :)

Well, I never knew about this issue before but I always assumed that the
reasonable behavior was the behavior.  And I never encountered any evidence to
the contrary.

-- 
Andriy Gapon