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SubjectRe: [v3, 3/3] MIPS: VDSO: Add implementations of gettimeofday() and clock_gettime()

> For example, On OCTEON single-chip systems we synchronize the the
> counters and they don't drift. So, we can use CPO.Count. However, on
> two-chip NUMA configurations there may be clock drift between the two
> chips, so CPO.Count cannot be used as a clocksource. We have a single
> kernel image that runs on both types of systems, so we have to be able
> to enable/disable the gettimeofday() acceleration.
>
Much more interesting the situation then there are a different clock
frequency in different CPUs.

It seems for me that per-thread memory idea may be required soon.

- Leonid


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