On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 16:34 -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > I've threatened to just disable RDTSC for ring 3 before, but it'll likely > > never happen because too many programs use it. > > Those programs are aware that they are fiddling around with low level > material but with this patchset we are going to have a non > monotonic time subsystem?
no quite the opposite. gettimeofday() currently is NOT monotonic unfortunately. With this patchseries it actually has a better chance of becoming that... -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com Test the interaction between Linux and your BIOS via http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/