Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751439AbWHEKrk (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Aug 2006 06:47:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751457AbWHEKrj (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Aug 2006 06:47:39 -0400 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:58638 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751439AbWHEKrj (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Aug 2006 06:47:39 -0400 Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 12:47:35 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Andi Kleen Cc: Zachary Amsden , Chris Wright , Greg KH , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Christoph Hellwig , Rusty Russell , Jack Lo , virtualization@lists.osdl.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, James.Bottomley@steeleye.com, pazke@donpac.ru Subject: Re: A proposal - binary Message-ID: <20060805104735.GS25692@stusta.de> References: <44D1CC7D.4010600@vmware.com> <20060804183448.GE11244@sequoia.sous-sol.org> <44D3B0F0.2010409@vmware.com> <200608050001.52535.ak@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200608050001.52535.ak@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1092 Lines: 31 On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 12:01:52AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > There is no reason Summit or es7000 or any other subarchitecture > would need to do different virtualization. In fact these subarchitectures > are pretty much obsolete by the generic subarchitecture and could be fully > done by runtime switching. >... Has anyone measured the performance impact of rutime CLOCK_TICK_RATE switching (since this will no longer allow some compile time optimizations in jiffies.h)? > -Andi cu Adrian -- Gentoo kernels are 42 times more popular than SUSE kernels among KLive users (a service by SUSE contractor Andrea Arcangeli that gathers data about kernels from many users worldwide). There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics. Benjamin Disraeli - 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/