On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 09:28 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 February 2007 07:40, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 16:34 -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > >
> > > > I've threatened to just disable RDTSC for ring 3 before, but it'll likely
> > > > never happen because too many programs use it.
> > >
> > > Those programs are aware that they are fiddling around with low level
> > > material but with this patchset we are going to have a non
> > > monotonic time subsystem?
> >
> > no quite the opposite. gettimeofday() currently is NOT monotonic
> > unfortunately.
>
> Anytime it is non monotonic that's a bug. We've had bugs
> like this before, but recently we're doing reasonably well. Of course
> there can be always improvements, but in general I don't agree
> with your statement, sorry. You can usually rely on it being monotonic,
> short of the known limitations (e.g. don't run ntpd)
oh I agree it should be monotonic, but I remember an argument I had with
you several weeks ago where you were basically saying the opposite ;)
I'm happy to see gtod become more monotonic/reliable any way we can
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