From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
dwalker@mvista.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.18-rt7: fix more issues with 32-bit cycles_t in latency_trace.c (take 3)
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 21:04:40 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45746338.7050903@ru.mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4574149B.5070602@ru.mvista.com>
Hello.
Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
>>Why is cycles_t 32-bits on some
>>of the arches to begin with?
> I guess this was done for speed reasons.
The whole 64-bit timebase can't be rad atomically on PPC32. ARM probably
has stricter limitations...
>> Ingo
WBR, Sergei
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-04 18:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-13 19:52 [PATCH] 2.6.18-rt7: fix more issues with 32-bit cycles_t in latency_trace.c (take 3) Sergei Shtylyov
2006-11-13 19:52 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2006-12-03 19:33 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2006-12-04 9:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-12-04 12:29 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2006-12-04 15:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-12-04 16:21 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2006-12-04 16:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-12-04 17:09 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2006-12-04 17:09 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2006-12-04 21:56 ` Roman Zippel
2006-12-04 21:56 ` Roman Zippel
2006-12-04 21:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-12-04 21:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-12-04 18:04 ` Sergei Shtylyov [this message]
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