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From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Sameer Nanda <snanda@chromium.org>,
	lenb@kernel.org, stefan.bader@canonical.com,
	brad.figg@canonical.com, apw@canonical.com,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Read TSC upon resume
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 23:44:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201010072344.22166.rjw@sisk.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101007181536.GA24811@suse.de>

On Thursday, October 07, 2010, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 11:05:21AM -0700, Sameer Nanda wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 10:43:34AM -0700, Sameer Nanda wrote:
> > >> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
> > >> > And are you always going to be printing this out?  Why do we want to
> > >> > know this every time?
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >> Yes, every time.  This helps track variance in BIOS resume times within a
> > >> single boot.
> > >
> > > Is that really something that users can do something about?
> > 
> > Aside from complaining to the BIOS vendors, no :)
> 
> Then I would not recommend adding this patch, as it is irrelevant for
> 99.9999% of all Linux users.

It may be somewhat useful, but the rdtscll() call seems to be x86-specific, in
which case it shouldn't be used at this place.

Thanks,
Rafael

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-07 21:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-06 23:15 [PATCH] ACPI: Read TSC upon resume Sameer Nanda
2010-10-07  2:19 ` Greg KH
     [not found]   ` <AANLkTimE2h46iZkj_amvgUg5UwN9xjuwqdW5TB+XccYy@mail.gmail.com>
2010-10-07 17:46     ` Greg KH
2010-10-07 18:05       ` Sameer Nanda
2010-10-07 18:15         ` Greg KH
2010-10-07 21:44           ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
2010-10-16  3:03             ` Koornstra, Reinoud
2010-10-18  2:41               ` Chen Gong
2010-10-07 17:58   ` Sameer Nanda
2010-10-07 19:59     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-10-07 21:27       ` Sameer Nanda
2010-10-07 21:43         ` Rafael J. Wysocki

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