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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 2/4] x86, mwaitt: introduce mwaitx idle with a configurable timer
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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