On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 12:01:52AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:

There is no reason Summit or es7000 or any other subarchitecture 
would need to do different  virtualization. In fact these subarchitectures 
are pretty much obsolete by the generic subarchitecture and could be fully
done by runtime switching.
...

Has anyone measured the performance impact of rutime CLOCK_TICK_RATE 
switching (since this will no longer allow some compile time 
optimizations in jiffies.h)?

-Andi

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Adrian

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