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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] x86/vdso: Handle clock_gettime(CLOCK_TAI) in vDSO
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
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From:   Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
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On 09/01/2018 05:39 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> Florian, do you think
> glibc would be willing to add some magic to turn
> clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, t) into
> __vdso_clock_gettime_monotonic(t) when CLOCK_MONOTONIC is a constant?

What's the goal here?  Turn the indirect call/conditional jump/indirect 
call sequence into a single indirect call, purely for performance reasons?

Thanks,
Florian