Re: [PATCH] raise tsc clocksource rating

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Date: Mon Oct 29 2007 - 19:17:53 EST


Ingo Molnar wrote:
> that's totally broken then. You cannot create an SMP-safe monotonic
> clocksource via interpolation - native does not do it either. Good thing
> this problem got exposed, it needs to be fixed.
>

Sigh, I don't really want to have this fight again.

I don't really see what point there is in raising the tsc's rating (why
is 300 insufficient again?), but regardless of the value, the Xen
clocksource rating needs to be higher.

J
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