From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] linux-2.5.59_getcycles_A0
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 01:18:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030208001844.GA20849@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1044659375.18676.80.camel@w-jstultz2.beaverton.ibm.com>
> I'm sorry, I'm not seeing get_cycles used in /dev/random (although they
> do make a direct call to rdtsc if its available - which is fine, since
Hmm, perhaps it was only a proposed patch that wasn't merged.
Anyways my point stands - get_cycles should be only used when no
wall time is needed, so I see no reason to complicate it and slow
it down with external timers.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-08 0:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1044649542.18673.20.camel@w-jstultz2.beaverton.ibm.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2003-02-07 21:19 ` [RFC][PATCH] linux-2.5.59_getcycles_A0 Andi Kleen
2003-02-07 23:09 ` john stultz
2003-02-08 0:18 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2003-02-08 0:50 ` john stultz
2003-02-08 1:52 ` Andi Kleen
2003-02-08 1:57 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-02-08 2:14 ` john stultz
2003-02-08 2:29 ` Andi Kleen
2003-02-08 2:42 ` john stultz
2003-02-08 3:41 ` Andi Kleen
2003-02-10 22:06 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-02-07 20:25 john stultz
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