From: Andi Kleen <ak@novell.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, johnstul@us.ibm.com,
tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386 tsc: remove xtime_lock'ing around cpufreq notifier
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:45:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200704121845.39961.ak@novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070412092348.70a4de05.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> I was proposing that i386 and x86_64 be given a new, lockless,
> high-resolution printk_clock(). Presently x86 uses the default
> printk_clock(), which uses sched_clock(). Presumably copying the
> pre-x86_64-mm-sched-clock-share.patch version of sched_clock() into
> printk_clock() will suffice.
Ok. I think it's better to just fix sched_clock() again than to
add another one. I can probably
eliminate the ktime_get() and use something based on jiffies. That will
be inaccurate for the instable case of course.
I will do that later today.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-12 16:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-11 16:29 [PATCH] i386 tsc: remove xtime_lock'ing around cpufreq notifier Daniel Walker
2007-04-11 20:31 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-11 20:54 ` Daniel Walker
2007-04-11 21:33 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-12 0:39 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-12 9:36 ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-12 16:23 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-12 16:45 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-04-12 17:00 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-12 17:43 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-12 17:46 ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-12 17:52 ` Daniel Walker
2007-04-12 17:55 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-12 18:27 ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-12 19:41 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-12 19:43 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-12 17:41 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-12 17:45 ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-12 19:46 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-12 20:15 ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-12 17:17 ` Andi Kleen
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