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From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [Patch 1/4] Delay accounting: Initialization
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 04:49:54 -0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051115064954.GB31904@logos.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051114202017.6f8c0327.akpm@osdl.org>

On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 08:20:17PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> > +	*ts = sched_clock();
> 
> I'm not sure that it's kosher to use sched_clock() for fine-grained
> timestamping like this.  Ingo had issues with it last time this happened?  

If the system boots with use_rtc == 0 you're going to get jiffies based
resolution from sched_clock(). I have a 1GHz Pentium 3 around here which
does that.

Maybe use do_gettimeofday() for such systems?

Would be nice to have a sort of per-arch overridable "gettime()" function?

> <too lazy to read all the code> Do you normalise these numbers in some
> manner before presenting them to userspace?  If so, by what means?

  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-15 12:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-15  4:35 [Patch 1/4] Delay accounting: Initialization Shailabh Nagar
2005-11-15  4:20 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-15  6:49   ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2005-11-15 15:19     ` Shailabh Nagar
2005-11-15 12:20       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-11-15 12:34         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-11-15 15:08   ` Shailabh Nagar
2005-11-16  1:06   ` Peter Chubb
2005-11-16  1:48     ` Shailabh Nagar
2005-11-16  1:50       ` Andi Kleen
2005-11-16  1:52       ` Peter Chubb
2005-11-15  4:25 ` Parag Warudkar
2005-11-15 22:29   ` Shailabh Nagar
2005-11-15 22:53     ` Parag Warudkar
2005-11-16  0:45       ` Shailabh Nagar
2005-11-16  2:41         ` Parag Warudkar

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