On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 12:07:21PM -0400, Gary Smith wrote: > The following message thread is present in the Linux-Mips archives regarding > the use of gettimeofday on Broadcom MIPS systems. > http://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2006-01/msg00144.html The > message thread specifically addresses the Dual-core Broadcom 1250 system, > and the kernel version mentioned in the message thread is 2.6.12. I looked > at the files mentioned in the message thread in the 2.6.17 kernel, and the > changes suggested for arch/mips/dec/time.c were present in 2.6.17. However, > the subsequent patches suggested in the message thread were not present in > the version of the 2.6.17 kernel I checked. We'd like to ask if the patches > suggested in the message thread have been observed to influence performance > numbers obtained by other Linux system developers for Quad-core Broadcom > 1480 systems? If so, do the Linux-Mips developers suggest that we apply the > patches suggested in the message thread for our Broadcom 1480 MIPS specific > Linux 2.6.17 system implementation? The patch never went in. I'm currently turning the entire time code upside down which will also solve this issue. Ralf
