Re: gettimeofday order of magnitude slower with pmtimer, which is default

[Avi Kivity <avi@argo.co.il>]

OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> writes:
>
>   
> > In my TOD rework I've dropped the triple read, figuring if a problem
> > arose we could blacklist the specific box. This patch covers that, so it
> > looks like a good idea to me.
> >
> > I've not tested it myself, but if you feel good about it, please send it
> > to Andrew.
> >     
> Current patch is the following. If I'm missing something, or you have
> some comment, please tell me. (Since I don't have ICH4, ICH4 detection
> is untested)
>   
Doesn't it make sense to mark the port as user accessible in the I/O 
permissions bitmap and export it as a vsyscall? that would save the 
syscall overhead.

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