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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
	Christopher Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sched_clock() uses are broken
Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 18:03:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200605071803.28983.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <445DFE72.4080801@yahoo.com.au>

On Sunday 07 May 2006 16:04, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Russell King wrote:
> 
> > Also, any comments on update_cpu_clock() and current_sched_time() both
> > appearing to be buggy, or am I barking up the wrong tree with those?
> 
> Can't remember off the top of my head who put those in, sorry.
> 
> Aside from the fact that they appear to be fundamentally buggy anyway
> because we don't require exact ns intervals from sched_clock() at the
> best of times, I think your wrapping fix for them looks correct.

I must say I always hated them because adding code to the context
switch for such an obscure POSIX bu^w"feature" is just a bad idea.
Maybe it would be best to remove it again instead of adding the 
scaling needed to make it actually work

(since we got along with such a broken implementation for so long I 
would guess that nobody uses these timers anyways) 

-Andi


  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-07 16:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-02 13:29 sched_clock() uses are broken Russell King
2006-05-02 14:21 ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-02 16:43 ` Andi Kleen
2006-05-02 16:50   ` Russell King
2006-05-02 17:01     ` Andi Kleen
2006-05-02 17:18       ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-05-02 18:55         ` Russell King
2006-05-02 19:05           ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-05-02 19:08             ` Russell King
2006-05-02 19:23               ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-05-02 21:35                 ` Russell King
2006-05-02 17:15     ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-05-04  3:50       ` George Anzinger
2006-05-04 14:18         ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-05-02 16:54   ` Christopher Friesen
2006-05-02 16:59     ` Andi Kleen
2006-05-02 17:07       ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-03  7:09         ` Mike Galbraith
2006-05-03  7:40           ` Andi Kleen
2006-05-03  9:11             ` Mike Galbraith
2006-05-03  9:16               ` Andi Kleen
2006-05-03  9:31                 ` Mike Galbraith
2006-05-07 12:33           ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-07 12:43             ` Russell King
2006-05-07 12:56               ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-07 13:00                 ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-07 13:18                   ` Russell King
2006-05-07 13:30                     ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-07 13:55                       ` Russell King
2006-05-07 14:04                         ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-07 16:03                           ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-05-07 16:53                       ` Russell King
2006-05-07 17:52                         ` Mike Galbraith
2006-05-07 17:37               ` Mike Galbraith
2006-05-07 17:32             ` Mike Galbraith
2006-05-08  4:14               ` Mike Galbraith
2006-05-08  4:37                 ` Mike Galbraith
2006-05-08  4:46                   ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-08  5:24                     ` Mike Galbraith
2006-05-08  5:30                       ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-04 20:02 ` Florian Paul Schmidt

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