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From: Andrea Arcangeli

Subject: Re: [patch 0/9] x86_64: reliable TSC-based gettimeofday

Date: Thursday, February 1, 2007 - 4:53 am

On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 12:20:59PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
quoted text> I think a better way to do this would be to define a new CLOCK_THREAD_MONOTONOUS
> (or better name) timer for clock_gettime(). 
> 
> [and my currently stalled vdso patches that implement clock_gettime
> as a vsyscall]
> 
> Then also an application could easily use it with LD_PRELOAD

I think a prctl to enable the non monothone mode is better than any
LD_PRELOAD trick.
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[patch 0/9] x86_64: reliable TSC-based gettimeofday, jbohac, (Thu Feb 1, 2:59 am)

Re: [patch 0/9] x86_64: reliable TSC-based gettimeofday, Andi Kleen, (Thu Feb 1, 4:20 am)

Re: [patch 0/9] x86_64: reliable TSC-based gettimeofday, Ingo Molnar, (Thu Feb 1, 4:34 am)

[-mm patch] x86_64 GTOD: offer scalable vgettimeofday, Ingo Molnar, (Thu Feb 1, 4:46 am)

Re: [patch 0/9] x86_64: reliable TSC-based gettimeofday, Andrea Arcangeli, (Thu Feb 1, 4:53 am)

Re: [-mm patch] x86_64 GTOD: offer scalable vgettimeofday, Andi Kleen, (Thu Feb 1, 5:01 am)

Re: [patch 0/9] x86_64: reliable TSC-based gettimeofday, Andi Kleen, (Thu Feb 1, 5:02 am)

Re: [-mm patch] x86_64 GTOD: offer scalable vgettimeofday, Ingo Molnar, (Thu Feb 1, 5:14 am)

Re: [patch 0/9] x86_64: reliable TSC-based gettimeofday, Ingo Molnar, (Thu Feb 1, 5:17 am)

Re: [-mm patch] x86_64 GTOD: offer scalable vgettimeofday II, Andi Kleen, (Thu Feb 1, 5:17 am)

Re: [-mm patch] x86_64 GTOD: offer scalable vgettimeofday II, Ingo Molnar, (Thu Feb 1, 5:24 am)

Re: [-mm patch] x86_64 GTOD: offer scalable vgettimeofday II, Andi Kleen, (Thu Feb 1, 5:45 am)

Re: [patch 0/9] x86_64: reliable TSC-based gettimeofday, Andrea Arcangeli, (Thu Feb 1, 5:54 am)

Re: [patch 0/9] x86_64: reliable TSC-based gettimeofday, Jiri Bohac, (Thu Feb 1, 7:52 am)

Re: [patch 0/9] x86_64: reliable TSC-based gettimeofday, john stultz, (Thu Feb 1, 9:56 am)

Re: [patch 0/9] x86_64: reliable TSC-based gettimeofday