Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Jan 2015 10:22:11 -0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/10][RFC] Increased clocksource validation and cleanups | From | John Stultz <> |
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On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 3:41 AM, Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 04:34:18PM -0800, John Stultz wrote: >> So this series is the result of earlier discussions with Linus >> and his suggestions around improvements to clocksource validation >> in the hope we can more easily catch bad hardware. > > Why penalize most users just because of a random hardware failure? > Why not make the "catching code" a compile time option?
Yea, I've not looked at the actual performance impact yet, but things like the read-time capping (which is in the hot path) could be put under a debug config. Thanks for the suggestion! -john
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