Re: [Patch 1/4] Delay accounting: Initialization

Peter Chubb
2005-11-16T01:07:09Z

>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes:

Andrew> Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> wrote:
>> + *ts = sched_clock();

Andrew> I'm not sure that it's kosher to use sched_clock() for
Andrew> fine-grained timestamping like this. Ingo had issues with it
Andrew> last time this happened?

It wasn't Ingo, it was Andi Kleen... for my Microstate Accounting
patches, which do very similar things to Shailabh's patchsetm, but
using /proc and a system call instead (following Solaris's lead)

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