Re: [RFC] The New and Improved Logdev (now with kprobes!)

[Steven Rostedt]

On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:

>
> Just as a detail : LTTng traces NMI, which can happen on top of a
> xtime_lock. So yes, I have to consider the impact of this kind of lock when I
> choose my time source, which is currently a per architecture TSC read,
> or a read of the jiffies counter when the architecture does not have a
> synchronised TSC over the CPUs. This is abstracted in include/asm-*/ltt.h.
>

I'm curious.  How do you show the interactions between two CPUs when the
TSC isn't in sync?  Using jiffies is not fast enough to know the order of
events that happen within usecs.

-- Steve


> I know it doesn't support dynamic ticks, I'm working on using the HRtimers
> instead, but I must make sure that the seqlock read will fail if it nests over
> a write seqlock.
>
> MAthieu
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