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

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Message-Id: <1160322376.5686.25.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Sun, 08 Oct 2006 17:46:15 +0200
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>
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 08:32 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > sched_clock is a user of the clocksource API and there is absolutely no
> > reason to put that into sched.c
> 
> We could do something like kernel/time/sched_clock.c ? I really don't
> like the idea of stuff sched_clock() , and timekeeping back into
> clocksource.

Do we really want 3 files which each has 50 lines of code ? Although
it's better than pushing that stuff into sched.c and timer.c. timer.c is
enough mess and we really do not want to add more.

	tglx

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