It's happening on my VAIO laptop as well, with a similar frequency. The size
of the typical regression dropped by roughly an order of magnitude between
2.4.19 and 2.4.20, from several 10's of ms to a few ms.
There needs to be a final idiot check in there, as the last thing that
happens in sys_gettimeofday, to catch and prevent such regressions in a
brutally stupid way, in addition to the fancy algorithm that tries to prevent
them, and has never fully succeeded in doing that.
A reasonable algorithm is: if time goes backwards by less than a second, it
wasn't somebody changing the clock, so return the previous timeofday,
otherwise, save the new value for the next test.
Applications like games (but not only games) can get pretty messed up by a
timeofday that jumps backwards every couple of seconds.
Regards,
Daniel
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