Re: [PATCH 8/11] Add a CPU KHZ calibration function to paravirt-ops

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Tue Feb 06 2007 - 07:26:46 EST


On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 07:53:23PM -0800, Zachary Amsden wrote:
> Provide a paravirtualized way to get the CPU clock frequency; this allows much
> of the code in tsc.c to be shared between all paravirt implementations.

Is this really needed?

What worries me somewhat of your patches is that you seem
to be quick at adding new hooks. But I would like to keep
paravirtops as minimal as possible with new hooks only
added when there is a very good justification.

I don't see it here.

-Andi
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