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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6]: Make packet scheduler clock source configurable
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 20:50:37 -0700
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On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 20:35:16 -0700 (PDT)
shemminger@osdl.org wrote:

> I have a patch (to the original) which replaces the arch dependant CPU stuff
> with the arch neutral sched_clock() which although slightly
> slower works on a x86_64 and ia64 as well.

I also want to add sparc64 %tick register support here too.
This is an area with a lot of potential cleanup.  We should
made an asm/pkt_sched.h to abstract out the clock source
implementation instead of loading net/pkt_sched.h up with
a pile of ifdefs.