From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: Performance overhead of get_cycles_sync Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:03:34 +0100 Message-ID: <20071211170334.GA30144@elte.hu> References: <475E8C8B.7070308@qumranet.com> <20071211133738.GA8150@elte.hu> <475E9A92.4030001@qumranet.com> <20071211142717.GA15903@elte.hu> <20071211083513.56c2a385@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel , Linux Kernel Mailing List To: Arjan van de Ven Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071211083513.56c2a385-NIQFrBLA1CpScpXdPBN83iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org * Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > * Dor Laor wrote: > > > > The patch below should resolve this - could you please test and Ack > > it? But this CPUID was present in v2.6.23 too, so why did it only > > show up in 2.6.24-rc for you? > > isn't this probably wrong since this code is also used in the vsyscall > code.. the TSC clocksource (and hence the vsyscall code) is turned off on systems that fail the TOD/CLOCK portion of this test: http://people.redhat.com/mingo/time-warp-test/time-warp-test.c i.e. on the majority of systems in place. Ingo ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php