Re: Proper kernel irq time accounting -v3

[Andi Kleen]

Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> Yes. Overhead will be RDTSC.
> notsc is a boot option that will disable this. I didn't want to have a

notsc is a very heavy hammer.

> specific run time option to disable this as we would already have
> other RDTSC users like native_sched_clock. Do you think we need a
> specific option to disable this feature? I don't like adding a runtime
> option because it complicates the code a bit (to handle things like
> someone turning it off and turning it on later, etc).

How about some benchmarks on a known slow TSC system, like a P4?

If you can't measure it even with high interrupt loads it is probably
not relevant. If it is it would be better to have a on/off switch.

-Andi
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