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To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Date: 01 Aug 2007 15:20:12 +0200
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Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> writes:

> especially if one already knows that
> scheduler clock has only limited resolution (because it's based on
> jiffies), it becomes possible to use mostly 32bit values.

jiffies based sched_clock should be soon very rare. It's probably
not worth optimizing for it.

-Andi