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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Export tsc related information in sysfs
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On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 11:58 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 22:06 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > look we're not disabling ring 3 tsc. We could, but we don't.
> 
> Maybe we should.

We could then trap and emulate it with something sensible like clock
monotonic.

/me runs :-)