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Message-Id: <1160342483.5686.104.camel@localhost.localdomain> Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 23:21:23 +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 14:15 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 20:45 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > > I'm not moving the kernel/timer.c clocksource user back into > > > kernel/time/clocksource.c . That code completely belongs with the > > > generic time of day changes. The code is directly coupled, and in fact > > > it improves the timekeeping clock switching code to have it that way. > > > > I don't see any reason, why it must be added to timer.c. You can achieve > > the same result with calling the code outside, except that the compiler > > might miss some inline optimization. The switch clock code is not a > > hotpath and so it does not matter whether it is called here or there. > > It wouldn't be as clean to integrate the two. The hotpath is improved > (which is what I was referring too above.) Sorry, where is which hotpath improved ? tglx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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