* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > that's totally broken then. You cannot create an SMP-safe monotonic
> > clocksource via interpolation - native does not do it either. Good thing
> > this problem got exposed, it needs to be fixed.
> >
>
> Sigh, I don't really want to have this fight again.
i dont remember us having discussed this before, ever. If there's any
"fight" about monotonicity and SMP then it would be a pretty onesided
affair, with you being beaten up seriously ;-)
> I don't really see what point there is in raising the tsc's rating
> (why is 300 insufficient again?), but regardless of the value, the Xen
> clocksource rating needs to be higher.
anyway, i agree that this patch cannot go in in its current form.
Ingo
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