Re: soft lockup when passing vvar address to write(2)

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Fri, 4 Mar 2016, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> Thomas, I still think we should consider just deleting the HPET vclock
> code and accept the syscall overhead on systems that are stuck using
> HPET.  If fast syscalls are available (which should include every
> system with HPET, unless there are some 32-bit AMD systems lying
> around), then the overhead in a syscall is *tiny* compared to the code
> of the HPET read itself.

No objection from my side, really.

Thanks,

	tglx