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From: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Scalability enhancements for gettimeofday
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 04:56:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0406022155280.19742@server.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200405201205.57930.clameter@sgi.com>

On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Jack Steiner wrote:

> What is the limitation in gettimeofday that prevents us from using a
> fast system call handler to access the RTC on SN2. I realize that fsys.S
> does not currently support this, but is there any fundamental
> restriction that makes this impossible to add?

None. Except that I currently have other priorities. But I plan to get
around it once the bigger timer issues are dealt with.

> If not, it would seem preferable to support SN2 rather add the #ifdefs.

Right.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-06-03  4:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-20 19:05 Scalability enhancements for gettimeofday Christoph Lameter
2004-06-02 17:33 ` David Mosberger
2004-06-02 20:58 ` John Hesterberg
2004-06-03  2:38 ` Jack Steiner
2004-06-03  4:56 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2004-06-03 16:28 ` Christoph Lameter
2004-06-03 20:04 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-04  6:29 ` David Mosberger
2004-06-04 14:26 ` Christoph Lameter
2004-06-05  5:12 ` David Mosberger
2004-06-07 17:46 ` Christoph Lameter
2004-06-07 18:14 ` David Mosberger
2004-06-07 20:24 ` Christoph Lameter
2004-06-07 20:55 ` David Mosberger
2004-06-07 22:48 ` Christoph Lameter
2004-06-07 23:02 ` David Mosberger
2004-06-08  4:08 ` Christoph Lameter
2004-06-08  4:33 ` David Mosberger
2004-06-08  5:59 ` Christoph Lameter
2004-06-08  6:06 ` David Mosberger
2004-06-08  7:11 ` Christoph Lameter
2004-06-08 18:02 ` David Mosberger
2004-06-08 18:32 ` Christoph Lameter
2004-06-08 21:38 ` David Mosberger
2004-06-08 21:48 ` Christoph Lameter
2004-06-08 22:13 ` David Mosberger

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