From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 19:29:27 +0000 Subject: Re: IA64 implementation of timesource for new time of day subsystem Message-Id: <17032.62615.750699.18847@napali.hpl.hp.com> List-Id: References: <1116029796.26454.2.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> <1116029872.26454.4.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> <1116029971.26454.7.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> <1116030058.26454.10.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> <1116030139.26454.13.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> <1116264858.26990.39.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> <1116269136.26990.67.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Christoph Lameter Cc: john stultz , lkml , Tim Schmielau , George Anzinger , albert@users.sourceforge.net, Ulrich Windl , Dominik Brodowski , David Mosberger , Andi Kleen , paulus@samba.org, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, keith maanthey , Chris McDermott , Max Asbock , mahuja@us.ibm.com, Nishanth Aravamudan , Darren Hart , "Darrick J. Wong" , Anton Blanchard , donf@us.ibm.com, mpm@selenic.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Mon, 16 May 2005 12:24:08 -0700 (PDT), Christoph Lameter said: Christoph> Other IA64 vendors will see that their timer performance Christoph> drops significantly after the new timer subsystem is Christoph> in. IBM no longer has IA64 systems that rely on ITC? Would that somehow make it ok to break existing and working code? --david