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From: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Virtualization Mailing List <virtualization@lists.osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] replace get_scheduled_cycles with sched_clock paravirt_op
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:34:23 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45F85C4F.10704@vmware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45F847E2.7040102@goop.org>

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Subject: Add a sched_clock paravirt_op
>
> The tsc-based get_scheduled_cycles interface is not a good match for
> Xen's runstate accounting, which reports everything in nanoseconds.
>
> This patch replaces this interface with a sched_clock interface, which
> matches both Xen and VMI's requirements.
>
> In order to do this, we:
>    1. replace get_scheduled_cycles with sched_clock
>    2. hoist cycles_2_ns into a common header
>    3. update vmi accordingly
>
> One thing to note: because sched_clock is implemented as a weak function in
> kernel/sched.c, we must define a real function in order to override this weak
> binding.  This means the usual paravirt_ops technique of using an inline
> function won't work in this case.
>   

Acked-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-14 20:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-14 19:07 [PATCH/RFC] replace get_scheduled_cycles with sched_clock paravirt_op Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-14 20:34 ` Zachary Amsden [this message]
2007-03-17  0:30 ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-17  0:43   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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