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From: linus.walleij@stericsson.com (Linus Walleij)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] RFC: nomadik: expand timesource to 63 bits
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:08:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CDD120A.2050401@stericsson.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101112095739.GH18358@pengutronix.de>

Uwe Kleine-K?nig wrote:

> Instead of implementing sched_clock for each architecture seperatly,
> wouldn't it be nice to have a generic sched_clock that uses the
> architecture's clocksource?  I tried to implement that some time ago,
> but tglx shoot it down because of locking problems.

I was and still am a big fan of this approach, I am willing to help
testing it if you want to dust off this patch set...

Yours,
Linus Walleij

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From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com>
To: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
	Rabin VINCENT <rabin.vincent@stericsson.com>,
	Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Colin Cross <ccross@google.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RFC: nomadik: expand timesource to 63 bits
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:08:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CDD120A.2050401@stericsson.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101112095739.GH18358@pengutronix.de>

Uwe Kleine-König wrote:

> Instead of implementing sched_clock for each architecture seperatly,
> wouldn't it be nice to have a generic sched_clock that uses the
> architecture's clocksource?  I tried to implement that some time ago,
> but tglx shoot it down because of locking problems.

I was and still am a big fan of this approach, I am willing to help
testing it if you want to dust off this patch set...

Yours,
Linus Walleij

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-12 10:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-11  9:05 [PATCH] RFC: nomadik: expand timesource to 63 bits Linus Walleij
2010-11-11  9:05 ` Linus Walleij
2010-11-11 10:16 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-11-11 10:16   ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-11-11 10:31   ` Linus Walleij
2010-11-11 10:31     ` Linus Walleij
2010-11-11 11:05     ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-11-11 11:05       ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-11-11 18:31       ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-11-11 18:31         ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-11-11 19:00         ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-11-11 19:00           ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-11-11 19:19           ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-11-11 19:19             ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-11-11 21:33 ` john stultz
2010-11-11 21:33   ` john stultz
2010-11-12  9:43   ` Linus Walleij
2010-11-12  9:43     ` Linus Walleij
2010-11-12  9:57   ` Uwe Kleine-König
2010-11-12  9:57     ` Uwe Kleine-König
2010-11-12 10:08     ` Linus Walleij [this message]
2010-11-12 10:08       ` Linus Walleij
2010-11-12 10:31       ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-11-12 10:31         ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-11-12 10:37         ` Linus Walleij
2010-11-12 10:37           ` Linus Walleij
2010-11-12 11:08           ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-11-12 11:08             ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-11-12 19:18           ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-11-12 19:18             ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-11-12 20:22           ` john stultz
2010-11-12 20:22             ` john stultz
2010-11-12 19:15     ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-11-12 19:15       ` Nicolas Pitre

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