V2 [PATCH] benchtests: Restore the clock_gettime option

[Florian Weimer]

* H. J. Lu:

> On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 11:05 AM Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> * Alexander Monakov via Libc-alpha:
>>
>> > I am well aware. Again: rdtsc does not count CPU cycles on recent
>> > Intel CPUs.
>>
>> H.J. probably has a different view on what those “recent Intel CPUs”
>> are. 8-) I have not reviewed the mechanics of the patch, but if we need
>> this for some CPUs, we should make the change.
>>
>
> Here the patch with updated commit message:
>
> commit 7621e38bf3c58b2d0359545f1f2898017fd89d05
> Author: Wilco Dijkstra <Wilco.Dijkstra@arm.com>
> Date:   Tue Jan 29 17:43:45 2019 +0000
>
>     Add generic hp-timing support
>
> removed the clock_gettime option.  Restore the clock_gettime option for
> some x86 CPUs on which value from RDTSC may not be incremented at a fixed
> rate.
>
> OK for master?

Patch looks okay to me.

Thanks,
Florian