Re: [PATCH] raise tsc clocksource rating

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> i dont remember us having discussed this before, ever. If there's any 
> "fight" about monotonicity and SMP then it would be a pretty onesided 
> affair, with you being beaten up seriously ;-)
>   

This is part of Xen's ABI, so it isn't easily changed.  You're right
that getting monotonicity is a pretty ugly affair of doing something
like "if (now < previous_return) return ++previous_return;", but its
better than using the tsc.

(Last time around, it was "Xen can't use the tsc because it can't ever
be used as a stable timebase" - though I don't think that was you
specifically.)

    J
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