From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Disable TSCs on CONFIG_MULTIQUAD
Date: 30 May 2002 02:37:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1022722675.4124.337.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1022718054.1963.51.camel@cog>
On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 01:20, john stultz wrote:
> Anyway, if you really would rather see what you suggested, I'll happily
> change it (I do like the idea of breaking the CONFIG_X86_TSC_UNSYNCED
> notion out of CONFIG_MULTIQUAD).
Not all the other places are "there is no TSC" most of them deal with
the ability to use a TSC. There are other setups where TSC exists but
isnt usable so distinguishing matters
Also there is one case where TSC that doesn't work matters specifically
- you want to turn off RDTSC access from user space to avoid user space
tools having little accidents
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-30 0:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-29 20:40 john stultz
2002-05-29 22:52 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-30 0:20 ` john stultz
2002-05-30 1:37 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2002-05-30 0:54 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-05-30 1:36 ` john stultz
2002-05-30 18:50 ` john stultz
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