Re: [RFC][PATCH] new timeofday core subsystem (v. A2)

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Tue Jan 25 2005 - 03:18:59 EST


On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 02:51:29PM -0800, john stultz wrote:
> All,
> Here is a new release of my time of day proposal, which include ppc64
> support as well as suspend/resume and cpufreq hooks. For basic summary
> of my ideas, you can follow this link: http://lwn.net/Articles/100665/

[...]
How do vsyscalls (running gettimeofday in user space) fit into your
architecture? I don't see any provision for this.

Also on x86-64 we plan to keep the cycle time base per CPU, that
will likely require some more changes to your architecture too.

-Andi
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