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From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
To: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
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Subject: Re: Initial bits to help pull jiffies out of drivers
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On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 02:33:03PM -0700, Tim Bird wrote:
> Alternatively, I could cook up a macro using sched_clock() to provide
> a substitute value to use to print timing info, in cases where it
> was desirable to preserve it.

We are certainly going to need a "time_now()" type function in some places
I agree.