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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, johnstul@us.ibm.com,
	tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386 tsc: remove xtime_lock'ing around cpufreq notifier
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 22:15:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200704122215.04499.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <461E8CAA.3020902@goop.org>


> They could be huge differences - unbounded, in fact.  It would make
> printk fairly hard to interpret,  I would think.  The only benefit to
> using sched_clock in printk is that if you're using it to work out the
> startup latencies you won't be confused by stolen time.  But I think
> that's a fairly small benefit compared to the disadvantage of not being
> able to meaningfully compare the timestamps on two printk messages.

Ok so the right solution would be a separate printk_clock() that is
implemented as the native sched_clock() even on Xen/VMI.  Should be a SMOP.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-12 20:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-11 16:29 [PATCH] i386 tsc: remove xtime_lock'ing around cpufreq notifier Daniel Walker
2007-04-11 20:31 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-11 20:54   ` Daniel Walker
2007-04-11 21:33     ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-12  0:39       ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-12  9:36         ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-12 16:23           ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-12 16:45             ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-12 17:00               ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-12 17:43                 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-12 17:46                   ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-12 17:52                   ` Daniel Walker
2007-04-12 17:55                   ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-12 18:27                     ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-12 19:41                       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-12 19:43                     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-12 17:41               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-12 17:45                 ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-12 19:46                   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-12 20:15                     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-04-12 17:17         ` Andi Kleen

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