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Re: [PATCH] POSIX monotonic clock

On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 12:06:18AM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
>On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 10:04 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 09:32:47AM +0200, V??clav Haisman wrote:
>> >This looks like you could get monotonic clock going backwards.
>> 
>> That's a good point.  We have that very problem here where I work.
>> However, Yaakov isn't adding anything new here so, if this is a problem,
>> it would be a long-standing one.
>> 
>> It sounds like it would be trivially solvable by setting the processor
>> affinity mask but I'm not sure what that would mean for performance.
>
>So should I hold off on my patch until this can be fixed?

Nah.  Go ahead.  Thanks.

cgf
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