Re: [ck] Re: [announce] [patch] Voluntary Kernel Preemption Patch

[Chris Friesen]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> it was reporting more accurate latencies, except that there were strange
> spikes of latencies. It turned out that for whatever reason, userspace
> RDTSC is not always reliable on my box (!).

Would the fact that rdtsc is not serializing have any effect here?  Or would 
that be a small enough error to not have any effect?

Chris
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