From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/18] Make TSC offset writes non-preemptible Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:33:31 -0400 Message-ID: <4C3CDBAB.209@redhat.com> References: <1278987938-23873-1-git-send-email-zamsden@redhat.com> <1278987938-23873-2-git-send-email-zamsden@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: KVM , Avi Kivity , Marcelo Tosatti , Glauber Costa , Linux-kernel To: Zachary Amsden Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1278987938-23873-2-git-send-email-zamsden@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On 07/12/2010 10:25 PM, Zachary Amsden wrote: > Ensure that the storing of the offset and the reading of the TSC > are never preempted by taking a spinlock. While the lock is overkill > now, it is useful later in this patch series. > > Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel -- All rights reversed