Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86: Implement prctl PR_GET_TSC and PR_SET_TSC

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Apr 14 2008 - 04:43:31 EST



* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> This is on a core 2 duo E6300.
>
> OK, so it sounds like there is no measurable difference. Good.

yep - that would be expected, as the patch only touches the
switch_to_xtra() path so it does not actually modify any fastpath.

any effect would be random code alignment changes, or perhaps some CPU
internal inefficiency when running with TSCs disabled (which would be
weird but still possible).

Ingo
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