Re: IA64 implementation of timesource for new time of day subsystem

From: David Mosberger
Date: Mon May 16 2005 - 14:44:00 EST


>>>>> On Mon, 16 May 2005 12:24:08 -0700 (PDT), Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

Christoph> Other IA64 vendors will see that their timer performance
Christoph> drops significantly after the new timer subsystem is
Christoph> in. IBM no longer has IA64 systems that rely on ITC?

Would that somehow make it ok to break existing and working code?

--david
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