Re: [RFC][PATCH] Runtime switching of the idle function [take 2]

On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 20:53 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> We're mostly addressing it - there are problems left, but
> overall it's looking good. The remaining problem is 
> an education issue of users to not use RDTSC directly, 
> but use gettimeofday/clock_gettime 

No the issue is to make gettimeofday fast enough that the people who
currently have to use the TSC can use it.  Right now it's 1500-3000 nsec
or so, Vojtech mentioned that he has a patch that could reduce that to
150-300 nsec.

Lee

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