From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Andreas Mohr <andi@rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de>,
Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@insightbb.com>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Turn rdmsr, rdtsc into inline functions, clarify names
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 18:04:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060807160432.GA16695@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060807155714.GA3075@muc.de>
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 05:57:14PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > That way a driver could use
> >
> > if (gtod_cpu_cycles_needed <= 500)
> > gettimeofday();
> > else
> > funky_fast_workaround();
>
> Sounds like overengineering to me. I prefer something simple.
I could as well benchmark gettimeofday() in the gameport init.
> > OK, in total we have at least four ways of doing this:
>
> Please don't get carried away with this. I'm really not interested
> in any complex solutions here.
--
Vojtech Pavlik
Director SuSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-07 16:04 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
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 [this message]
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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