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From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Remove hpet vclock support
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 16:43:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52ED1626.7060905@ladisch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d348afdb2f6acc41dde0381396226b69a0358f8b.1391210357.git.luto@amacapital.net>

Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> The HPET is so amazingly slow that this is barely a win.

What happens on CPUs where the TSC cannot be used for the clock?

> it scares me a tiny bit to map a piece of crappy hardware where every
> userspace program can poke at it (even if said poking is read-only).
> Let's just remove it.

So this mapping is a backdoor to bypass the restrictions on /dev/hpet?  ;-)


Regards,
Clemens

  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-01 15:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-31 23:19 Andy Lutomirski
2014-02-01 15:43 ` Clemens Ladisch [this message]
2014-02-01 17:10   ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-02-04 19:31 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-02-04 19:41   ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-02-04 20:29     ` Thomas Gleixner

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