From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Piggin Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 15:12:45 +0000 Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] 2.6.0-test11 sched_clock() broken for "drifty ITC" Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: >Nick Piggin wrote: > >> >> >>Ingo Molnar wrote: >> >> >>>So i believe the generic relaxing of sched_clock() synchronization is >>>the right thing to do. I like your patch. It adds minimal overhead and >>>solves a hard problem - nice work! Andrew, please apply it. >>> >>> >>> >>Its a great looking patch if you must have high res sched_clock. So >>I guess I agree with it. >> > >miaow ;) > I'm just thinking that computers with unsynched clocks have less need for good interactivity, but thats probably too narrow and x86 a view anyway. > >>Can we have a scheduler day when Andrew is ready to take patches for >>it? I have a few small changes that I'd like to get merged soon too >>(not sched domains - that should probably go to the mm tree for a while) >> >>Relevant patches are >>sched-ctx-count-preempt.patch >>sched-fork-cleanup.patch >>sched-migrate-comment.patch >>sched-style.patch >>sched-migrate-affinity-race.patch >> >> > >Post 'em. > OK, I'll trim the cc list though...