On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 18:57 +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote: > Peter Zijlstra writes: > > > So, while most people would not consider two consecutive read() ops to > > be close or near the same time, due to preemption and such, that is > > taken away by the fact that the counters are task local time based - so > > preemption doesn't affect thing. Right? > > I'm sorry, I don't follow the argument here. What do you mean by > "task local time based"? time only flows when the task is running. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
