linux-kernel - Re: A proposal

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Message-ID: <20060805104735.GS25692@stusta.de>
Date:	Sat, 5 Aug 2006 12:47:35 +0200
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Cc:	Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Jack Lo <jlo@...are.com>, virtualization@...ts.osdl.org,
	xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com, James.Bottomley@...eleye.com,
	pazke@...pac.ru
Subject: Re: A proposal - binary

On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 12:01:52AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> There is no reason Summit or es7000 or any other subarchitecture 
> would need to do different  virtualization. In fact these subarchitectures 
> are pretty much obsolete by the generic subarchitecture and could be fully
> done by runtime switching.
>...

Has anyone measured the performance impact of rutime CLOCK_TICK_RATE 
switching (since this will no longer allow some compile time 
optimizations in jiffies.h)?

> -Andi

cu
Adrian

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