On Tue, 31 Jul 2018, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 2:22 PM, Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> wrote:
> >> u64 start = __vdso_read_art_ns();
> >
> > Errm. No. You can't read ART. ART is only used by decives to which it is
> > distributed. You can only read TSC here and convert that to nsecs.
>
> Bah.
>
> But my point remains -- I think that the user (non-vDSO) code should
> think in nanoseconds, not TSC ticks. That we have have a much better
> chance of getting migration right.
Agreed. And we should not create new interfaces for that. We already have
clock_gettime() which is the right thing to use.
> > A possible solution would be to use CLOCK_MOTONIC_RAW which is not affected
> > by NTP/PTP adjustments. But that still has the issue of TSC not being the
> > timekeeping clocksource. Bah, the whole TSC deadline mode sucks. I have no
> > idea what's wrong with simple down counters. They Just Work.
>
> I think it's not totally crazy to declare UMWAIT on a system with a
> non-TSC clocksource to be unsupported.
Sure, the information is already available in the VDSO gtod data.
Thanks,
tglx
