Re: [PATCH 3/4] new timeofday x86-64 arch specific changes (v. B1)

[john stultz]

On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 13:27 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > How about something like this?
> > 
> > 300 TSC 
> > 200 HPET
> > 200 CYCLONE
> > 100 ACPI
> > 050 PIT
> > 010 JIFFIES
> > 
> > Then if the system has TSC issues (unsynced, cpufreq problems, etc), we
> 
> The priority is fine, the problem is getting the decisions for when
> to fallback right.
> 
> It is quite complicated to decide this, see the x86-64 time.c code 
> for this.

Hmmm. I'm not sure I see the level of complication that you allude to.
Let me re-spin my patches again with the tsc timesource auto-demotion
and let me know if I'm missing anything.

thanks
-john


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