From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: hugh@veritas.com
Cc: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] setup.c notsc Re: Microsecond accuracy
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 06:10:26 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2741.194.236.209.133.976716626.squirrel@www.zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012071856280.1138-100000@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012071856280.1138-100000@localhost.localdomain>
>
> The present situation is inconsistent: "notsc" removes cpuinfo's
> "tsc" flag in the UP case (when cpu_data[0] is boot_cpu_data), but
> not in the SMP case. I don't believe HPA's recent mods affected that
> behaviour, but it is made consistent (cleared in SMP case too) by the
> patch I sent him a couple of days ago, below updated for test12-pre7...
>
Great. You've taken something that was somewhat broken in the UP case and
introduced massive braindamage in the SMP case. What really needs to be is
that the global enables (boot_cpu_data) should be exposed.
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-12-13 15:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-07 11:42 Kotsovinos Vangelis
2000-12-07 12:36 ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-12-07 14:13 ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-12-07 15:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-12-07 16:07 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2000-12-07 19:28 ` [PATCH] setup.c notsc " Hugh Dickins
2000-12-07 20:48 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2000-12-13 14:10 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2000-12-07 16:54 ` Christopher Friesen
2000-12-08 0:17 ` Kotsovinos Vangelis
2000-12-07 21:14 ` Karim Yaghmour
2000-12-08 0:18 ` Kotsovinos Vangelis
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