Re: printk timestamps jumping back and forth in 2.6.25-rc.

[Ingo Molnar]

* David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:11:26 +1100
> 
> > On powerpc we use the timebase register, which is synchronized across
> > CPUs, so if this will add unnecessary overhead, we will want to way to
> > turn it off on powerpc (assuming this ends up going upstream).
> 
> Similarly on sparc64, all of our TSCs are fully synchronized so this 
> complexity is completely unnecessary.

i suspect for them the easiest way is to expose time_sync_thresh and let 
them set it to ULONG_MAX - which skips all synchronization overhead and 
complexity.

	Ingo
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