From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Lameter Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 04:56:40 +0000 Subject: Re: Scalability enhancements for gettimeofday Message-Id: List-Id: References: <200405201205.57930.clameter@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <200405201205.57930.clameter@sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org 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.