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Message-Id: <200608062243.45129.dtor@insightbb.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 22:43:44 -0400
From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...ightbb.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@....de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Turn rdmsr, rdtsc into inline functions, clarify names
On Saturday 05 August 2006 23:16, Andi Kleen wrote:
> This whole thing is broken, e.g. on a preemptive kernel when the
> code can switch CPUs
>
Would not preempt_disable fix that?
> Dmitry, I would suggest to convert it over to do_gettimeofday and remove
> all the architecture ifdefs.
>
> Or maybe just remove it completely. Who cares about the speed of a gameport
> anyways? And why can't they measure it in user space?
>
Analog driver uses it to adjust timing. Vojtech should have more background
on that..
--
Dmitry
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