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From: Kasper Dupont <kasperd@daimi.au.dk>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: It hurts when I shoot myself in the foot
Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 17:36:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CEE5DFB.985EFF6E@daimi.au.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E17BHKb-0006hz-00@the-village.bc.nu>

Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > If the kernel knew multipliers couldn't it actually use the TSCs
> > anyway? Of course it would take some work, but is there any
> > reason why it would not be posible?
> 
> In 2.4 yes. In 2.5 it would be close to impossible due to the pre-empt code

Couldn't that be solved in one of the following ways?

1) Disable pre-emption while reading TSC and CPU nr.
2) Use affinity for processes pre-empted in kernel mode.
3) Disable pre-emption for SMP systems.

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-24 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-22 16:15 It hurts when I shoot myself in the foot Chris
2002-05-22 23:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-05-23  3:48   ` Andreas Dilger
2002-05-23  4:49     ` Mike Fedyk
2002-05-23  5:42       ` Andreas Dilger
2002-05-23 17:33         ` Mike Fedyk
2002-05-23 22:28           ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-05-24  7:32             ` Mike Fedyk
2002-05-24  7:36               ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-05-24 15:28         ` Alan Cox
2002-05-24 15:20           ` Kasper Dupont
2002-05-24 15:50             ` Alan Cox
2002-05-24 15:36               ` Kasper Dupont [this message]
2002-05-24 16:09                 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-24 16:39                   ` Kasper Dupont
2002-05-24 18:44                     ` Alan Cox
2002-05-24 16:36                 ` Austin Gonyou

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