From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>,
Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
rusty@rustcorp.com.au, Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>,
kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
Glauber de Oliveira Costa <glauber@t60.localdomain>,
Dan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>, Garrett Smith <garrett@vmware.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] raise tsc clocksource rating
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:33:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47266DCE.1070309@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071029232140.GA10518@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar wrote:
> i dont remember us having discussed this before, ever. If there's any
> "fight" about monotonicity and SMP then it would be a pretty onesided
> affair, with you being beaten up seriously ;-)
>
This is part of Xen's ABI, so it isn't easily changed. You're right
that getting monotonicity is a pretty ugly affair of doing something
like "if (now < previous_return) return ++previous_return;", but its
better than using the tsc.
(Last time around, it was "Xen can't use the tsc because it can't ever
be used as a stable timebase" - though I don't think that was you
specifically.)
J
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-29 23:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-29 23:10 [PATCH] raise tsc clocksource rating Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-10-29 22:17 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-10-29 22:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-30 1:26 ` john stultz
2007-10-30 2:39 ` Rusty Russell
2007-10-30 7:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-30 10:52 ` Rusty Russell
2007-10-30 12:13 ` Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-10-29 22:42 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-10-29 22:45 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-29 22:48 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-29 22:52 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-29 22:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-29 23:17 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-29 23:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-29 23:33 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2007-10-30 0:45 ` Ian Pratt
2007-10-30 7:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-29 22:55 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-10-29 23:02 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-29 23:13 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-10-29 23:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-30 12:02 ` Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-10-30 17:58 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-10-29 23:24 ` Dan Hecht
2007-10-30 4:24 ` [kvm-devel] " Avi Kivity
2007-10-30 7:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-30 11:59 ` Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-10-30 0:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
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