Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261305AbVEQIH1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 May 2005 04:07:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261338AbVEQIH1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 May 2005 04:07:27 -0400 Received: from rrzmta2.rz.uni-regensburg.de ([132.199.1.17]:37055 "EHLO rrzmta2.rz.uni-regensburg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261361AbVEQIHN (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 May 2005 04:07:13 -0400 From: "Ulrich Windl" Organization: Universitaet Regensburg, Klinikum To: davidm@hpl.hp.com Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 10:05:08 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: IA64 implementation of timesource for new time of day subsystem Cc: john stultz , lkml , Tim Schmielau , George Anzinger , albert@users.sourceforge.net, Ulrich Windl , Dominik Brodowski , David Mosberger , Andi Kleen , paulus@samba.org, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, keith maanthey , Chris McDermott , Max Asbock , mahuja@us.ibm.com, Nishanth Aravamudan , Darren Hart , "Darrick J. Wong" , Anton Blanchard , donf@us.ibm.com, mpm@selenic.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <4289C1D4.5666.6DBB9A@rkdvmks1.ngate.uni-regensburg.de> In-reply-to: <17032.62615.750699.18847@napali.hpl.hp.com> References: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.21c) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-Content-Conformance: HerringScan-0.26/Sophos-P=3.92.0+V=3.92+U=2.07.092+R=04 April 2005+T=103334@20050517.075159Z Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 793 Lines: 21 On 16 May 2005 at 12:29, David Mosberger wrote: > >>>>> On Mon, 16 May 2005 12:24:08 -0700 (PDT), Christoph Lameter said: > > Christoph> Other IA64 vendors will see that their timer performance > Christoph> drops significantly after the new timer subsystem is > Christoph> in. IBM no longer has IA64 systems that rely on ITC? > > Would that somehow make it ok to break existing and working code? AFAIR the design goal was not to make a new time implementation, but to make a more precise one ;-) Regards, Ulrich - 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/