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From: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tim Ricketts <tr@earth.li>, Michael Smith <msmith@xiph.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andy Wingo <wingo@fluendo.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: gettimeofday() jumping into the future
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:03:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1206979407.6175.2.camel@jstultz-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0803311048170.3219@apollo.tec.linutronix.de>


On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 10:55 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 
> > +     if (cycle_now < clock->cycle_last)
> > +             return 0;
> > +
> 
> No, this breaks wrapping clocksources e.g. pmtimer. We need a
> different sanity check for that TSC crap.

Yea. If you're going to do that sort of logic (which requires a costly
cmpxchg as well), it should be done in the read() function of the
clocksource.

thanks
-john
 


  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-31 16:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-23 11:08 gettimeofday() jumping into the future Michael Smith
2007-08-23 11:36 ` Gerald Britton
2007-08-23 13:03   ` Avi Kivity
2007-08-23 20:09     ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-08-23 20:07   ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-08-23 11:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-23 12:20   ` Michael Smith
2007-08-23 18:47     ` john stultz
2007-08-25 16:44       ` Michael Smith
2008-03-30 21:17 ` Tim Ricketts
2008-03-31  7:18   ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-03 11:47     ` James Courtier-Dutton
2008-04-03 12:22       ` James Courtier-Dutton
2008-04-03 12:44         ` James Courtier-Dutton
2008-04-11 23:11           ` john stultz
2008-03-31  8:55   ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-03-31 16:03     ` John Stultz [this message]
2008-04-02 11:22       ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-04-02 23:57         ` Karsten Wiese
2008-04-03  6:28           ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-04-02  4:26   ` Mihai Donțu
2008-04-02  4:27     ` Mihai Donțu
     [not found] <47F3F313.7030803@vmware.com>
2008-04-02 22:40 ` Tim Mann

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