On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 11:45:39AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > It is certainly interesting to compare alternative ways of handling the > > > instruction streams by various processors or models of processors. > > > > Well you have to do a lot more work then to handle instable TSCs then. > > I have been using this for 2 years. It works fine for my purposes.
That might be on your systems, but for a mainline submission the standards are higher. > > > In particular the frequencies can be different between CPUs, they > > change (which you can catch with cpufreq notifiers) and during the > > cpufreq change period they're instable (as in you can't tell for > > some time which frequency they're currently running at and they > > might be running immediate frequencies) > > Well then simply make sure that they do not change while you measure. That would be a merge blocker in my opinion. Suitable for local hacks, but nothing we want in tree. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
