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Date:	Sun, 08 Oct 2006 23:38:25 +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-increase-initcall-priority.patch added to -mm
	tree

On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 14:31 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 23:20 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 14:15 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Which one exactly? I'm not aware of a problem with the existing code at
> > > > all.
> > > 
> > > Clock shuffling.
> > 
> > What's the problem with that ? It replaces clocks. Where _is_ the
> > problem ?
> 
> The problem is that it's not optimal to have clocks switching furiously.
> This is something John notes as an issue in the unchanged
> kernel/time/clocksource.c file.

I don't see that behaviour on my machines and nobody complains about
that. I don't care about stale comments. Point me to a bug report
instead of your perception of what's optimal and not.

Working is not necessary optimal, but your vision of optimal is not
necessarily working either.

	tglx


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