From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@insightbb.com>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Turn rdmsr, rdtsc into inline functions, clarify names
Date: 7 Aug 2006 14:28:45 +0200
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 14:28:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060807122845.GA85602@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060807110931.GM27757@suse.cz>
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 01:09:31PM +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 10:48:50AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 10:43:44PM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > On Saturday 05 August 2006 23:16, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > > This whole thing is broken, e.g. on a preemptive kernel when the
> > > > code can switch CPUs
> > > >
> > >
> > > Would not preempt_disable fix that?
> >
> > Partially, but you still have other problems. Please just get rid
> > of it. Why do we have timer code in the kernel if you then chose
> > not to use it?
>
> The problem is that gettimeofday() is not always fast.
When it is not fast that means it is not reliable and then you're
also not well off using it anyways.
Please change that code.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-07 12:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2006-08-06 2:38 ` [PATCH] Turn rdmsr, rdtsc into inline functions, clarify names Andi Kleen
2006-08-06 2:56 ` Rusty Russell
2006-08-06 2:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-06 3:09 ` Rusty Russell
2006-08-06 3:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-06 3:49 ` Rusty Russell
2006-08-06 3:16 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-06 3:52 ` Rusty Russell
2006-08-06 14:58 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-07 2:43 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-08-07 8:48 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-07 11:09 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-08-07 12:28 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-08-07 12:48 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-08-07 12:56 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-07 13:18 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-08-07 13:32 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-08-07 15:01 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-07 15:19 ` Andreas Mohr
2006-08-07 15:57 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-07 16:04 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-08-07 16:12 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-07 19:22 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-08-14 20:13 ` Pavel Machek
2006-08-07 11:07 ` Vojtech Pavlik
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