Re: [PATCH RFC] sched: add notifier for process migration

[Avi Kivity]

On 10/10/2009 09:14 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Why not do something like:
>
>      struct {
> 	u64 tsc;
> 	u32 aux;
>      } tscp = rdtscp();
>
>      local_time_info = timeinfo[tscp_cpu(tscp)];
>
>      /* yay, consistent tsc and timeinfo !! */
>    

First, not all processors support rdtscp.  Second, timeinfo might change 
at any time due to cpu frequency changes or the entire cpu being 
migrated, so we need to loop in any case.

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