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From: Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com>
To: akataria@vmware.com
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
	Dan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>, Jeff Hansen <x@jeffhansen.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Improve TSC as a clocksource under VMware
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:55:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48FD6EDC.5010801@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1224552902.2640.88.camel@alok-dev1>

Alok Kataria wrote:
> This patch set makes some changes to the TSC code, so that it is always
> used as the default clocksource when running under VMware.
> The first 2 patches do the ground work of adding code to detect if we
> are running under VMware.
> The third patch adds a tsc_reliable flag which tells us that TSC is
> reliable on this system, so that we can skip some tests which can
> potentially mark TSC as unstable. Details under individual patch
> headers. 

Do you intend for this to supplement Jeff Hansen's tsc=stable patch, or to 
replace it?  If you intend to supplement it, you should rework your submission 
to make sure that both your autodetection and his command-line option use the 
same internal mechanism, and if you intend to replace it, you should say this 
explicitly, and justify it.  Either way, you should definitely CC Jeff on the 
submission, as I am doing now.

-- Chris

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-21  5:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-21  1:35 [PATCH 0/3] Improve TSC as a clocksource under VMware Alok Kataria
2008-10-21  5:55 ` Chris Snook [this message]
2008-10-21 19:11   ` Alok Kataria
2008-10-22 19:26   ` Alok Kataria
2008-10-22 19:29     ` Jeff Hansen
2008-10-21  9:43 ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-21 16:41   ` Alok Kataria
2008-10-21 17:40     ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-21 18:04       ` Alok Kataria
2008-10-21 18:15         ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-21 19:10           ` Alok Kataria
2008-10-21 19:27             ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-21 19:47               ` Alok Kataria
2008-10-21 21:41                 ` Alok Kataria
2008-10-22 19:23               ` [PATCH] Skip tsc synchronization checks if CONSTANT_TSC bit is set Alok Kataria
2008-10-22 19:26                 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-22 19:30                   ` Alok Kataria
2008-10-22 20:17                   ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-22 22:04                     ` Alok Kataria
2008-10-22 19:58                 ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-22 22:00                   ` Alok Kataria
2008-10-22 22:13                     ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-22 22:11                       ` Alok Kataria
2008-10-22 22:54                         ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-23  2:21                           ` Alok Kataria
2008-10-23  8:10                             ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-23 23:39                               ` Alok Kataria
2008-10-23 23:47                                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-24  0:25                                   ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-24  0:46                                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-24  7:23                                       ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-24 15:30                                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-24 19:25                                           ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-24 19:19                                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-24 19:34                                               ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-24 19:50                                                 ` Alok Kataria
2008-10-24 20:18                                             ` Dan Hecht
2008-10-24  1:12                                   ` Alok Kataria
2008-10-24  1:18                                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-22 22:15                     ` Alan Cox
2008-10-22 22:17                       ` Alok Kataria
2008-10-21  9:50 ` [PATCH 0/3] Improve TSC as a clocksource under VMware Pavel Machek
2008-10-21 16:48   ` Alok Kataria
2008-10-21 18:36     ` Pavel Machek

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