linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: Export tsc related information in sysfs

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Message-ID: <1274176981.5605.7376.camel@twins>
Date:	Tue, 18 May 2010 12:03:01 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc:	Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@...cle.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@...gle.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	chris.mason@...cle.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Export tsc related information in sysfs

On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 11:58 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 22:06 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > look we're not disabling ring 3 tsc. We could, but we don't.
> 
> Maybe we should.

We could then trap and emulate it with something sensible like clock
monotonic.

/me runs :-)
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