Subject: Re: Need help with timecounters/todr
To: Garrett D'Amore <garrett_damore@tadpole.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: port-alpha
Date: 09/21/2006 14:03:46
On Sep 19, 2006, at 6:31 AM, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> This was exactly the part I wasn't sure about. I _think_ this
> should be
> done (or similar logic) as part of timecounters -- i.e. each processor
> needs to have some kind of synchronization -- probably implementing
> the
> tc_pps method for timecounters. I'm not an alpha expert though, so
> I'm
> not 100% sure.
I think Frank needs to step in here and take a look. I am NOT a time-
keeping expert by any means (my copyright notice at the top of
kern_microtime.c not withstanding; I was mostly adopting Mills' code
to our kernel).
-- thorpej