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From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>
To: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@intel.com>,
	"xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Adjust time init sequence
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:44:44 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C56612FC.2011A%keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0A882F4D99BBF6449D58E61AAFD7EDD603BB491E@pdsmsx502.ccr.corp.intel.com>

On 11/12/2008 00:23, "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@intel.com> wrote:

>> Is it really safe to use NOW() before init_percpu_time()? Seems dodgy.
> 
> Where did you mean by using NOW before init_percpu_time?
> I moved do_settime earlier but with a zero system stamp now
> which matches the line behind to init stime_platform_time to zero.
> To me there's no difference to initialize wallclock at zero point
> or sometime after with a NOW() drift, which should cause similar
> result to wc_sec/wc_nsec.

init_platform_time() -> plt_overflow() -> NOW()

Perhaps the above is safe though? Will NOW() return zero for an
uninitialised per-cpu time sstructure (since stime_local_stamp and tsc_scale
are both zero)?

 -- Keir

  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-11  0:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-10 13:10 [PATCH] Adjust time init sequence Tian, Kevin
2008-12-10 13:49 ` Keir Fraser
2008-12-11  0:23   ` Tian, Kevin
2008-12-11  0:44     ` Keir Fraser [this message]
2008-12-11  0:47       ` Tian, Kevin
2008-12-11  4:45         ` Tian, Kevin
2008-12-11  9:04         ` Keir Fraser
2008-12-11  9:06           ` Tian, Kevin
2008-12-11 13:12           ` Keir Fraser
2008-12-12  3:40             ` Tian, Kevin
2008-12-12  9:08               ` Keir Fraser
2008-12-12 10:10                 ` Jan Beulich
2008-12-12 10:38                   ` Keir Fraser
2008-12-12 16:40                     ` Tian, Kevin

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