linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Re: x86_32 tsc/pit and hrtimers

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0810092152410.3271@apollo>
Date:	Thu, 9 Oct 2008 21:53:58 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Jeff Hansen <x@...fhansen.com>
cc:	Chris Snook <csnook@...hat.com>, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: x86_32 tsc/pit and hrtimers

On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, Jeff Hansen wrote:

> OK, so are we all agreed that something like clocksource_trust=tsc would be
> the best?

No, it's per affected device: tsc=trust or tsc=stable or whatever
unintuitive name we want to come up. And it is a modification to TSC
not to the clocksource layer.

Thanks,

	tglx
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