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From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@systemhalted.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Tres Melton <tres@mindspring.com>, parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] [Testers wanted] New glibc with profiling fixed.
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 14:08:53 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050726180851.GB9703@systemhalted.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050726170949.GB2221@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>

On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 06:09:49PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > IMO any interface exporting/using ticks is broken. Accurate time can 
> > be provided through other interfaces. Userspace should never see ticks,
> > only converted time.
> 
> userspace should see converted ticks.  ie divide by 10 if CONFIG_HZ is 1000
> since PA userspace expects to see 100Hz.

I meant "ideologicall" broken. Yes, converting ticks to an expected
value preserves userspace compatibility.

gprof may want to stop using times() when a more suitable interface
becomes available.

c.

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-26 18:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-22 12:56 [parisc-linux] [Testers wanted] New glibc with profiling fixed Tres Melton
2005-07-25  0:09 ` Grant Grundler
     [not found]   ` <1122272788.10644.71.camel@thor.tres.org>
2005-07-26 13:24     ` Grant Grundler
2005-07-26 13:37       ` Tres Melton
2005-07-26 14:18         ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-07-26 14:25           ` Randolph Chung
2005-07-26 17:01             ` Carlos O'Donell
2005-07-26 17:09               ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-07-26 18:08                 ` Carlos O'Donell [this message]
2005-07-26 15:26           ` Tres Melton
2005-07-26 17:16           ` Carlos O'Donell
     [not found] <no.id>
2004-01-07 21:14 ` John David Anglin
2004-01-07 21:14 ` John David Anglin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-01-05 19:48 Carlos O'Donell
2004-01-05 19:48 ` Carlos O'Donell
2004-01-05 19:48 ` Carlos O'Donell
2004-01-11  4:09   ` Grant Grundler
2004-01-11  4:09   ` Grant Grundler
2004-01-11 20:43     ` Carlos O'Donell
2004-01-12 16:38       ` Grant Grundler
2004-01-12 16:38       ` Grant Grundler
2004-01-13  5:42       ` Grant Grundler
2004-01-13  5:42       ` Grant Grundler
2004-01-13  8:46       ` Joel Soete
2004-01-13  8:46       ` Joel Soete
2004-01-11 20:43     ` Carlos O'Donell
2004-01-05 20:45 ` Grant Grundler
2004-01-05 22:00   ` Carlos O'Donell
2004-01-05 22:00   ` Carlos O'Donell
2004-01-05 20:45 ` Grant Grundler
2004-01-07 21:04 ` John David Anglin
2004-01-07 21:04 ` John David Anglin
2004-01-05 19:48 Carlos O'Donell

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