From: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
To: George Anzinger <george@mvista.com>
Cc: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ck@vds.kolivas.org,
tony@atomide.com, tuukka.tikkanen@elektrobit.com,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386 No-Idle-Hz aka Dynamic-Ticks 5
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 19:35:28 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050810140528.GA20893@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42F905DA.4070308@mvista.com>
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 12:36:58PM -0700, George Anzinger wrote:
> IMNOHO, this is the ONLY way to keep proper time. As soon as you
> reprogram the PIT you have lost track of the time.
George,
Can't TSC (or equivalent) serve as a backup while PIT is disabled,
especially considering that we disable PIT only for short duration
in practice (few seconds maybe) _and_ that we don't have HRT support yet?
--
Thanks and Regards,
Srivatsa Vaddagiri,
Linux Technology Center,
IBM Software Labs,
Bangalore, INDIA - 560017
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-10 14:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-03 5:59 [PATCH] i386 No-Idle-Hz aka Dynamic-Ticks 3 Con Kolivas
2005-08-03 11:54 ` Jan De Luyck
2005-08-03 12:14 ` Con Kolivas
2005-08-03 14:23 ` Jan De Luyck
2005-08-04 15:03 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-08-05 5:12 ` Con Kolivas
2005-08-03 19:20 ` Jim MacBaine
2005-08-03 21:16 ` Con Kolivas
2005-08-03 22:22 ` Jim MacBaine
2005-08-03 22:52 ` Con Kolivas
2005-08-04 5:34 ` Jim MacBaine
2005-08-04 6:59 ` Jim MacBaine
2005-08-04 7:04 ` Con Kolivas
2005-08-04 7:12 ` Con Kolivas
2005-08-04 7:29 ` Tony Lindgren
2005-08-10 20:04 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-08-14 19:47 ` Pavel Machek
2005-08-15 1:43 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-08-15 12:52 ` Con Kolivas
2005-08-15 15:39 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-08-03 19:54 ` Jeffrey Hundstad
2005-08-03 20:07 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-08-03 21:13 ` Con Kolivas
2005-08-03 23:22 ` Christian Leber
2005-08-04 16:25 ` Marc Ballarin
2005-08-04 5:09 ` Jan De Luyck
2005-08-04 5:07 ` Con Kolivas
2005-08-04 5:34 ` Jan De Luyck
2005-08-04 21:15 ` [PATCH] Timer Top was: " Daniel Petrini
2005-08-05 4:05 ` [PATCH] Timer Top tweaks Con Kolivas
2005-08-05 6:46 ` [ck] [PATCH] Timer Top was: i386 No-Idle-Hz aka Dynamic-Ticks 3 Jens Axboe
2005-08-05 12:39 ` Daniel Petrini
2005-08-05 13:55 ` Daniel Petrini
2005-08-04 21:44 ` [PATCH] " Adrian Bunk
2005-08-04 22:12 ` Marc Ballarin
2005-08-05 0:31 ` Con Kolivas
2005-08-05 1:30 ` Paul
2005-08-05 3:25 ` Con Kolivas
2005-08-05 12:37 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2005-08-05 13:08 ` Con Kolivas
2005-08-05 16:39 ` [PATCH] i386 No-Idle-Hz aka Dynamic-Ticks 4 Con Kolivas
2005-08-06 17:47 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-08-07 5:12 ` [PATCH] i386 No-Idle-Hz aka Dynamic-Ticks 5 Con Kolivas
2005-08-07 16:58 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2005-08-07 23:51 ` Con Kolivas
2005-08-08 1:20 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-08-08 1:30 ` Con Kolivas
2005-08-08 1:45 ` [ck] " Gabriel Devenyi
2005-08-08 2:44 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2005-08-08 7:05 ` Nigel Cunningham
2005-08-08 7:38 ` Tony Lindgren
2005-08-08 15:06 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2005-08-09 19:36 ` George Anzinger
2005-08-10 14:05 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri [this message]
2005-08-10 22:37 ` George Anzinger
2005-08-11 21:33 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-08-12 15:13 ` George Anzinger
2005-08-08 15:08 ` Folkert van Heusden
2005-08-08 15:16 ` Daniel Petrini
2005-08-08 7:26 ` [PATCH] i386 No-Idle-Hz aka Dynamic-Ticks 3 Tony Lindgren
2005-08-08 14:54 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2005-08-08 15:20 ` Tony Lindgren
2005-08-09 14:22 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-08-10 7:46 ` Tony Lindgren
2005-08-09 20:05 ` George Anzinger
2005-08-09 20:22 ` Daniel Petrini
2005-08-10 8:02 ` Tony Lindgren
2005-08-10 22:40 ` George Anzinger
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