From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@insightbb.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Turn rdmsr, rdtsc into inline functions, clarify names
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 22:43:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200608062243.45129.dtor@insightbb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060806031643.GA43490@muc.de>
On Saturday 05 August 2006 23:16, Andi Kleen wrote:
> This whole thing is broken, e.g. on a preemptive kernel when the
> code can switch CPUs
>
Would not preempt_disable fix that?
> Dmitry, I would suggest to convert it over to do_gettimeofday and remove
> all the architecture ifdefs.
>
> Or maybe just remove it completely. Who cares about the speed of a gameport
> anyways? And why can't they measure it in user space?
>
Analog driver uses it to adjust timing. Vojtech should have more background
on that..
--
Dmitry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-07 2:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2006-08-06 2:38 ` [PATCH] Turn rdmsr, rdtsc into inline functions, clarify names Andi Kleen
2006-08-06 2:56 ` Rusty Russell
2006-08-06 2:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-06 3:09 ` Rusty Russell
2006-08-06 3:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-06 3:49 ` Rusty Russell
2006-08-06 3:16 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-06 3:52 ` Rusty Russell
2006-08-06 14:58 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-07 2:43 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
2006-08-07 8:48 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-07 11:09 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-08-07 12:28 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-07 12:48 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-08-07 12:56 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-07 13:18 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-08-07 13:32 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-08-07 15:01 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-07 15:19 ` Andreas Mohr
2006-08-07 15:57 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-07 16:04 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-08-07 16:12 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-07 19:22 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-08-14 20:13 ` Pavel Machek
2006-08-07 11:07 ` Vojtech Pavlik
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