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From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Roger Heflin <rheflin@atipa.com>,
	"'linux-kernel'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Dual core Athlons and unsynced TSCs
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 20:27:18 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1137202039.1408.42.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1137201821.11300.30.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com>

On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 17:23 -0800, john stultz wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 20:14 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 20:10 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > 
> > > Thanks, I'll add that to my list of tests too.
> > > 
> > > Oh and 2.6.15 passed as well (with clock=pmtmr) 
> > 
> > It really seems like it would fail if you gave it enough time due to the
> > rdtsc in monotonic_clock()...
> 
> Currently monotonic_clock()is only used by the hangcheck-timer, and is
> not used by gettimeofday/clock_gettime (even w/ CLOCK_MONOTONIC). 
> 
> So there may still be an issue there w/ the hangcheck-timer(for x86-64,
> on i386 the acpi pm timer can be used for monotonic_clock), but its
> doesn't affect the time related userland interfaces.

OK so the last question is how do we make sure the kernel uses the
clock=pmtmr behavior by default on those machines?

Lee


  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-14  1:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-12 22:17 Dual core Athlons and unsynced TSCs Lee Revell
2006-01-13 15:10 ` Roger Heflin
2006-01-13 16:04   ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-13 17:47     ` Lee Revell
2006-01-13 17:52       ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-13 17:54         ` Lee Revell
2006-01-13 18:41           ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-13 18:55             ` Lee Revell
2006-01-13 20:09               ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-13 20:26                 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-13 20:40                   ` Lee Revell
2006-01-13 20:43                   ` Lee Revell
2006-01-13 20:46                     ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-01-13 20:48                       ` Lee Revell
2006-01-13 20:51                         ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-01-13 20:52                         ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-13 21:05                       ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-13 21:10                         ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-01-13 21:17                           ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-16  9:52                             ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-01-16 15:55                               ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-14  0:23                 ` john stultz
2006-01-14  1:10                   ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-14  1:14                     ` Lee Revell
2006-01-14  1:23                       ` john stultz
2006-01-14  1:27                         ` Lee Revell [this message]
2006-01-14  1:39                           ` john stultz
2006-01-14  1:43                             ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-14  1:50                               ` john stultz
2006-01-14  2:15                                 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-14  2:34                                 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-16  1:19                             ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-14  6:54               ` Christoph Lameter
2006-01-13 18:06 ` thockin
2006-01-13 17:58   ` Lee Revell
2006-01-13 18:16     ` thockin
2006-01-13 18:09       ` Lee Revell
2006-01-13 18:55         ` thockin
2006-01-13 18:56           ` Sven-Thorsten Dietrich
2006-01-13 19:00             ` Lee Revell
2006-01-13 19:07               ` Sven-Thorsten Dietrich
2006-01-13 21:18               ` David Lang
2006-01-13 21:56                 ` thockin
2006-01-13 22:05                   ` David Lang
2006-01-13 22:18                     ` Sven-Thorsten Dietrich
2006-01-13 22:49                       ` David Lang
2006-01-14  0:41                         ` Andreas Steinmetz
2006-01-14  1:04                           ` David Lang
2006-01-14  1:21                             ` Andreas Steinmetz
2006-01-14  1:51                               ` thockin
2006-01-15  8:52                             ` Zan Lynx
2006-01-15 16:25                               ` thockin
2006-01-15 16:33                                 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-15 18:21                                   ` thockin
2006-01-15 18:29                                     ` Lee Revell
2006-01-15 18:49                                       ` thockin
2006-01-14  1:13                           ` thockin
2006-01-13 22:23                     ` thockin
2006-01-13 19:13             ` Xavier Bestel
2006-01-13 19:32             ` thockin
2006-01-13 20:58               ` Steven Rostedt
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2006-01-14  0:24               ` Robert Hancock

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