Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261981AbVASX33 (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2005 18:29:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261982AbVASX1M (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2005 18:27:12 -0500 Received: from 213-239-205-147.clients.your-server.de ([213.239.205.147]:10648 "EHLO debian.tglx.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261976AbVASX0O (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2005 18:26:14 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] dynamic tick patch From: Thomas Gleixner Reply-To: tglx@linutronix.de To: george@mvista.com Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , Tony Lindgren , Pavel Machek , john stultz , Zwane Mwaikambo , Con Kolivas , Martin Schwidefsky , LKML In-Reply-To: <41EEE648.2010309@mvista.com> References: <20050119000556.GB14749@atomide.com> <20050119094342.GB25623@elf.ucw.cz> <20050119171323.GB14545@atomide.com> <20050119174858.GB12647@dualathlon.random> <41EEE648.2010309@mvista.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 00:26:11 +0100 Message-Id: <1106177171.16877.274.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 (2.0.3-2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 528 Lines: 14 On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 14:59 -0800, George Anzinger wrote: > I don't think you will ever get good time if you EVER reprogramm the PIT. Why not ? If you have a continous time source, which keeps track of "ticks" regardless the CPU state, why should PIT reprogramming be evil ? tglx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/