From: Ingo M. <mi...@el...> - 2007-10-29 23:22:04
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* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <je...@go...> 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. Ingo |