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xen-devel
Re: [Xen-devel] [patch 14/33] xen: xen time implementation
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Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> |
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Re: [Xen-devel] [patch 14/33] xen: xen time implementation |
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> |
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Wed, 06 Jun 2007 07:15:31 -0700 |
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Andi Kleen wrote:
>> I once had some code in there to do that, implemented in very boneheaded
>> way with a spinlock to protect the "last time returned" variable. I
>> expect there's a better way to implement it.
>>
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> But any per CPU setup likely needs this to avoid non monotonicity
Yeah. The point I didn't quite make was that this should be something
that the clock core should handle rather than dealing with it in every
clocksource.
J
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