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author | Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org> | 2021-07-02 23:09:19 +0000 |
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committer | Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org> | 2021-07-02 23:10:35 +0000 |
commit | 6329ca325e02af4566346e725e2d07c85d4b3444 (patch) | |
tree | 7d5a154c5ee424a928c167354f5ba7a4498bae1f /share | |
parent | b50a4dce185481bebf8096c27588ae04a4a2fd7c (diff) | |
download | src-6329ca325e02af4566346e725e2d07c85d4b3444.tar.gz src-6329ca325e02af4566346e725e2d07c85d4b3444.zip |
hardclock.9: Refine some details
Refine mistakes from adaptaton of NetBSD's hardclock man page to
FreeBSD:
o clarify what usermode means
o clarify how often hardclock is called
o remove Xr callout(9) since that's done elsewhere
Reviewed by: mav@
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30982
Diffstat (limited to 'share')
-rw-r--r-- | share/man/man9/hardclock.9 | 26 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man9/hardclock.9 b/share/man/man9/hardclock.9 index 2aab68cb5f85..451ad8a28a93 100644 --- a/share/man/man9/hardclock.9 +++ b/share/man/man9/hardclock.9 @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ .\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE .\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.Dd March 25, 2010 +.Dd July 1, 2021 .Dt HARDCLOCK 9 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -39,19 +39,26 @@ .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Fn hardclock -function is called -.Xr hz 9 -times per second. -It implements the real-time system clock. -The argument +function is called periodically based on pending work. +The rate ranges from +.Va hz +times per second on a very busy system, to twice a second on an idle system. +The .Va cnt -is the estimated number of ticks since the last call to -.Fn hardclock . +argument reports an estimate of the number of ticks since the last call. +The sum of +.Va cnt +over a second averages +.Va hz +over the long haul. +See +.Xr hz 9 +for important details over shorter time scales. The argument .Va usermode is none-zero when .Fn hardclock -is called from a user-mode context. +is called from an context that interrupted usermode execution. .Pp .Fn hardclock may perform different tasks such as: @@ -96,5 +103,4 @@ processing. .Xr ntp_adjtime 2 , .Xr signal 3 , .Xr ntpd 8 , -.Xr callout 9 , .Xr hz 9 |