Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 May 2015 11:41:50 +0200 (CEST) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 2/4] x86, mwaitt: introduce mwaitx idle with a configurable timer |
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On Wed, 20 May 2015, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > John, Peter, Thomas: would it actually make sense to teach the core > timer/clockevent code about perfect time sources like invariant TSC + TSC
Perfect? There is no such concept in timer land.
> deadline? AFAICT right now we're not doing anything particularly interesting > with the TSC deadline timer.
Interesting in what way? We still have to convert from and to nanoseconds and deal with the clock skew ....
Thanks,
tglx
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