Re: [PATCH] x86: Export tsc related information in sysfs

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Tue May 18 2010 - 14:50:51 EST


On 05/18/2010 10:49 AM, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
>
> (Though I expect tglx/arjan/andi/mingo to disagree with this proposal
> for similar reasons as the original one that started this thread...)
>

I'll add another reason to disagree: exporting these as sysfs variables
is non-atomic, but these are really only useful when atomically read as
a unit.

-hpa
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