linux-kernel - Re: + clocksource-add-generic-sched

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Date:	Sun, 08 Oct 2006 07:45:50 -0700
From:	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>
To:	tglx@...utronix.de
Cc:	akpm@...l.org, johnstul@...ibm.com, mingo@...e.hu,
	zippel@...ux-m68k.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: + clocksource-add-generic-sched_clock.patch added to -mm tree

On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 11:55 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 18:53 -0700, akpm@...l.org wrote:
> > Adds a generic sched_clock, along with a boot time override for the scheduler
> > clocksource (sched_clocksource).  Hopefully the config option would eventually
> > be removed.
> 
> Again, this belongs into the clocksource code and not into sched.c
> 
> Your patch series scatters clock source related code snippets all over
> the place. This becomes simply a maintenance nightmare.

It's an API, it's suppose to be used in different places.  

Daniel

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