Re: [PATCH 00/10][RFC] Increased clocksource validation and cleanups

2015-01-12 Thread Richard Cochran
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 10:22:11AM -0800, John Stultz wrote: > Yea, I've not looked at the actual performance impact yet, but things > like the read-time capping (which is in the hot path) could be put > under a debug config. Thanks for the suggestion! Having a broken clock is like having a broken

Re: [PATCH 00/10][RFC] Increased clocksource validation and cleanups

2015-01-12 Thread John Stultz
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 3:41 AM, Richard Cochran wrote: > On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 04:34:18PM -0800, John Stultz wrote: >> So this series is the result of earlier discussions with Linus >> and his suggestions around improvements to clocksource validation >> in the hope we can more easily catch bad

Re: [PATCH 00/10][RFC] Increased clocksource validation and cleanups

2015-01-11 Thread Richard Cochran
On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 04:34:18PM -0800, John Stultz wrote: > So this series is the result of earlier discussions with Linus > and his suggestions around improvements to clocksource validation > in the hope we can more easily catch bad hardware. Why penalize most users just because of a random ha

[PATCH 00/10][RFC] Increased clocksource validation and cleanups

2015-01-09 Thread John Stultz
So this series is the result of earlier discussions with Linus and his suggestions around improvements to clocksource validation in the hope we can more easily catch bad hardware. There's also a few cleanups Linus suggested as well as a few I've been meaning to get to for awhile. I'm still feelin