From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 21:14:08 +0100 On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 12:09:05PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > Andi, i386 SMP? :-) If you used do_gettimeofday unconditionally then everybody would eat the readlock, not only i386 (unless you change it to be lockless first like andrea did for the x86-64 vsyscall version) If you didn't propose to use it unconditionally then I misunderstood you and I apologize. Andi, the x86 platforms that have SMP have TSC and in that case do_get_fast_time == do_gettimeofday and there is no read locking :-)))))))))))) This is the whole point of this, get_fast_time is total garbage. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
