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From: Jes Sorensen <jes@trained-monkey.org>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: libc-hacker@sources.redhat.com, davidm@hpl.hp.com
Subject: Re: ia64 clock_gettime and HP_TIMING
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 13:27:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq0n0b01jqr.fsf@trained-monkey.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FB34B5A.2040209@redhat.com>

>>>>> "Ulrich" == Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:

Ulrich> Jes Sorensen wrote:
>> In that case we should simply not provide HP timing on ia64.

Ulrich> "Oh, I cannot provide a feature for the machines I'm using.
Ulrich> That means nobody must use it."

This is a general problem on a large number of ia64 machines. Relying
on the ITC in userland without checking /proc/sal/itc_drift first is
simply broken.

Ulrich> The HP clocks are extremely useful.  They stay.

I am not saying that should go, I am just asking we come up with a
solution that means our binaries return an error rather return
unreliable data.

How do you feel about a solution where we add a runtime check against
/proc/sal/itc_drift and handle it appropriately within the HP_TIMING
macros?

Cheers,
Jes

  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-13 13:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-12 15:35 Jes Sorensen
2003-11-12 18:00 ` Ulrich Drepper
2003-11-13  8:25   ` Jes Sorensen
2003-11-13  9:15     ` Ulrich Drepper
2003-11-13 13:27       ` Jes Sorensen [this message]
2003-11-13 22:54         ` David Mosberger
2003-11-13 23:26           ` Ulrich Drepper
2003-11-14  9:46           ` Jes Sorensen
2003-11-14 17:57             ` Ulrich Drepper
2003-12-01 15:56               ` Jes Sorensen
2003-12-10  9:57                 ` Jes Sorensen
2003-12-10 23:39                   ` Ulrich Drepper
2003-12-11 10:50                     ` Jes Sorensen
2003-12-11 19:29                       ` David Mosberger
2003-12-11 20:48                 ` Ulrich Drepper
2003-12-12  8:49                   ` Jes Sorensen
2003-11-17 23:39             ` David Mosberger

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