On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 02:38 -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> > > The pit clocksource could be dropped pretty easy with my clocksource
> > > update patches, which I'm still working on but you could easily drop
> > > clock sources that aren't atomic like the pit .. Also the pit is
> > > generally undesirable, so it's not going to be missed.
> >
> > that's totally unacceptable, and i'm amazed you are even suggesting it -
> > often the PIT ends up being the most reliable hardware clock in a PC.
> > Btw., what's wrong with the spinlock that is protecting PIT access? It
> > expresses the non-atomic property of the PIT just fine.
> >
>
> I am concerned about the automatic fallback to the PIT when no other
> clock source is available.
And what are you going to use then ? Just kill the box, when nothing
else than PIT is there ?
tglx
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