Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:21:40 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] raise tsc clocksource rating |
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* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:
> Ingo Molnar wrote: > > that's totally broken then. You cannot create an SMP-safe monotonic > > clocksource via interpolation - native does not do it either. Good thing > > this problem got exposed, it needs to be fixed. > > > > Sigh, I don't really want to have this fight again.
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 ;-)
> I don't really see what point there is in raising the tsc's rating > (why is 300 insufficient again?), but regardless of the value, the Xen > clocksource rating needs to be higher.
anyway, i agree that this patch cannot go in in its current form.
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