Re: [RFC][PATCH] Runtime switching of the idle function [take 2]

From: Lee Revell (rlrevell_at_joe-job.com)
Date: 11/29/05

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    To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Date:	Tue, 29 Nov 2005 15:35:39 -0500

    On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 20:53 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
    > We're mostly addressing it - there are problems left, but
    > overall it's looking good. The remaining problem is
    > an education issue of users to not use RDTSC directly,
    > but use gettimeofday/clock_gettime

    No the issue is to make gettimeofday fast enough that the people who
    currently have to use the TSC can use it. Right now it's 1500-3000 nsec
    or so, Vojtech mentioned that he has a patch that could reduce that to
    150-300 nsec.

    Lee

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