Re: Performance overhead of get_cycles_sync

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Dec 11 2007 - 15:30:39 EST



* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Which is not on core2 which was the question about. And if it was
> > turned off it wouldn't use get_cycles_sync() at all.
>
> it is turned off on core2 too:
>
> # cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource
> acpi_pm

but you are right that it's not turned off on all core2's, so my patch
is wrong for them.

Ingo
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