Re: A proposal - binary

Adrian Bunk
2006-08-05T10:47:40Z

On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 12:01:52AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> There is no reason Summit or es7000 or any other subarchitecture
> would need to do different virtualization. In fact these subarchitectures
> are pretty much obsolete by the generic subarchitecture and could be fully
> done by runtime switching.
>...

Has anyone measured the performance impact of rutime CLOCK_TICK_RATE
switching (since this will no longer allow some compile time
optimizations in jiffies.h)?

> -Andi

cu
Adrian

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