Re: 2.3.39 compile errors on Alpha

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Mon Sep 30 2002 - 08:15:50 EST


On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 13:25, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> Date: 30 Sep 2002 13:35:40 +0100
>
> Is this actually safe - suppose the machine has no tsc counter (eg old
> x86 or indeed new x86 numa, speedstep using, etc). In that case
> do_gettimeofday doesn't appear to be either IRQ safe or fast enough to
> use in this way ?
>
> This is how netif_rx() has worked for a long time. ATM is just
> copying the input packet logic.
>
> So why are you complaining now? :-)

Because I was looking over the gettimeoffset code and forgot that
gettimeofday itself takes the xtime_lock 8)

Alan

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