Re: [-mm patch] x86_64 GTOD: offer scalable vgettimeofday II

2007-02-01 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thursday 01 February 2007 13:24, Ingo Molnar wrote: > if resolution is an issue then i can improve this thing to be based off > a separate /optional/ hrtimer, thus if it's enabled it could enable 1000 > Hz (and not 1024 Hz) update for the variable. The update resolution > could be tuned via

Re: [-mm patch] x86_64 GTOD: offer scalable vgettimeofday II

2007-02-01 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The 'price' paid for it is lower resolution - but it's still good > > for those benchmarking TPC-C runs - and /alot/ simpler. > > BTW another comment: I was told that at least one of the big databases > wants ms resolution here. So to make your schem

Re: [-mm patch] x86_64 GTOD: offer scalable vgettimeofday II

2007-02-01 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thursday 01 February 2007 12:46, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Inter-CPU monotonicity can not, however, be guaranteed in a vsyscall, > > so vsyscall is not used by default. [...] > > note that this is not actually the case. My patch below, ontop