Re: IA64 implementation of timesource for new time of day subsystem
From: Ulrich Windl
Date: Tue May 17 2005 - 03:10:53 EST
On 16 May 2005 at 12:29, David Mosberger wrote:
> >>>>> On Mon, 16 May 2005 12:24:08 -0700 (PDT), Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
>
> Christoph> Other IA64 vendors will see that their timer performance
> Christoph> drops significantly after the new timer subsystem is
> Christoph> in. IBM no longer has IA64 systems that rely on ITC?
>
> Would that somehow make it ok to break existing and working code?
AFAIR the design goal was not to make a new time implementation, but to make a
more precise one ;-)
Regards,
Ulrich
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