From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
To: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][patch 00/12] clocksource / timekeeping rework V2
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:49:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1248958173.6046.32.camel@desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090730125351.6f16e9ec@skybase>
On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 12:53 +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> > I'm not sure allowing that type of override a good idea tho .. I don't
> > think it's considered a usable clock when the rating goes to zero.
>
> Override as the root user -> your foot, no? The whole override stuff is
> there for the case that the clocksource selection picked a broken clock
> and you want to force the system into a semi-working state. Ideally the
> whole override would go away, but that is probably wishful thinking..
I would agree if the system doesn't crash as a result, if it just starts
to operate funny then that's maybe acceptable. If you keep the change
rating function, you could potentially remove the unregister path..
Daniel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-30 12:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2009-07-30 10:53 ` [RFC][patch 00/12] clocksource / timekeeping rework V2 Martin Schwidefsky
2009-07-30 12:49 ` Daniel Walker [this message]
2009-07-30 13:04 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2009-07-30 13:49 ` Daniel Walker
2009-07-30 17:16 ` john stultz
2009-07-30 18:08 ` Daniel Walker
2009-07-30 20:37 ` Andreas Mohr
2009-07-30 20:56 ` john stultz
2009-07-31 5:33 ` Daniel Walker
2009-07-31 8:34 ` john stultz
2009-07-31 16:44 ` Daniel Walker
2009-07-30 17:12 ` john stultz
[not found] <200907301349.n6UDnCpx008890@d06av06.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com>
2009-07-30 15:42 ` Martin Schwidefsky
[not found] <200907291702.n6TH2LEt017305@d06av05.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com>
2009-07-29 17:09 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2009-07-29 17:17 ` Daniel Walker
2009-07-29 17:34 ` Daniel Walker
2009-07-30 7:42 ` Martin Schwidefsky
[not found] <200907291510.n6TFAV8k000647@d06av06.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com>
2009-07-29 16:50 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2009-07-29 17:02 ` Daniel Walker
2009-07-29 13:41 Martin Schwidefsky
2009-07-29 15:10 ` Daniel Walker
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