Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Read TSC upon resume | Date | Thu, 7 Oct 2010 23:44:21 +0200 |
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On Thursday, October 07, 2010, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 11:05:21AM -0700, Sameer Nanda wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 10:43:34AM -0700, Sameer Nanda wrote: > > >> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote: > > >> > And are you always going to be printing this out? Why do we want to > > >> > know this every time? > > >> > > > >> > > >> Yes, every time. This helps track variance in BIOS resume times within a > > >> single boot. > > > > > > Is that really something that users can do something about? > > > > Aside from complaining to the BIOS vendors, no :) > > Then I would not recommend adding this patch, as it is irrelevant for > 99.9999% of all Linux users.
It may be somewhat useful, but the rdtscll() call seems to be x86-specific, in which case it shouldn't be used at this place.
Thanks, Rafael
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