Bug#716746: backport clock_getcpuclockid2 syscall into kfreebsd-9

[David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org>]

I need to look for time to do the MFC, it is not too easy,
because it changes kernel and adds a syscall, touches libc,
libthr and some header files.

Regards,
David Xu

On 2013/07/12 16:35, Robert Millan wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> Would you consider MFC'ing your commit in rev 239347?
>
> It'd be very useful to us if it were included in stable/9.
>
>
> 2013/7/12 Petr Salinger <Petr.Salinger@seznam.cz>:
> > Package: kfreebsd-9
> > Severity: wishlist
> > User: debian-bsd@lists.debian.org
> > Usertags: kfreebsd
> >
> > To properly provide CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID, CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID
> > and clock_id's created by clock_getcpuclockid() and pthread_getcpuclockid(),
> > we need a kernel support.
> > See also #665287.
> >
> > The kernel support is available in HEAD (but not in STABLE-9).
> > It should not be to hard to backport kernel part of
> >
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=168417
> >
> > into our kernel.
> >
> > The FBTL based libpthread will use only this interface,
> > it will not fallback to TSC timers at all.
> > The reason is that TSC part is fragile and unaccurate.
> >
> > Petr
> >
> >
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