Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Jan 2003 01:06:58 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.59-mm1 |
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Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> wrote: > > > > -cputimes_stat.patch > > > > Not to Linus's taste. > > Pity, I just had another reason to use this today (Checking if a network > app was locking itself down to a cpu)
You can query that with sched_getaffinity()
> > -lockless-current_kernel_time.patch > > > > Is ia32-only. > > We can fix that. Ive been avoiding it because it will take some non > trivial cleanup of our ppc64 time.c. Based on how often get_current_time > is appearing in profiles
Have you some numbers handy?
> and also how gettimeofday has been known to > cause problems on large SMP (due to read_lock on xtime starving > write_lock in the timer irq) I think this should get merged. >
OK. I've had basically zero success getting non-ia32 people to test these patches, and breaking their build won't help that.
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