From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754146Ab0CROl6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:41:58 -0400 Received: from are.twiddle.net ([75.149.56.221]:46438 "EHLO are.twiddle.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753715Ab0CROl5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:41:57 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 574 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:41:57 EDT Message-ID: <4BA23974.5030503@twiddle.net> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:32:20 -0700 From: Richard Henderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100301 Fedora/3.0.3-1.fc12 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Stultz CC: lkml , Thomas Gleixner , Ivan Kokshaysky , Matt Turner Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Convert alpha to use clocksource References: <1268877702-2236-1-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <1268877702-2236-1-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 03/17/2010 07:01 PM, John Stultz wrote: > Alpha has a tsc like rpcc counter that it uses to manage time. > This can be converted to an actual clocksource instead of utilizing > the arch_gettimeoffset method that is really only there for legacy > systems with no continuous counter. With 8 seconds or less between roll-overs, do you actually consider this a continuous counter? I don't. I suggest this be left alone. r~