linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] i386 tsc: remove xtime_lock'ing around cpufreq notifier

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Message-Id: <20070412100039.00ace23f.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:00:39 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...ell.com>
Cc:	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	johnstul@...ibm.com, tglx@...utronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386 tsc: remove xtime_lock'ing around cpufreq notifier

On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:45:39 +0200 Andi Kleen <ak@...ell.com> wrote:

> 
> > I was proposing that i386 and x86_64 be given a new, lockless,
> > high-resolution printk_clock().  Presently x86 uses the default
> > printk_clock(), which uses sched_clock().  Presumably copying the
> > pre-x86_64-mm-sched-clock-share.patch version of sched_clock() into
> > printk_clock() will suffice.
> 
> Ok. I think it's better to just fix sched_clock() again than to
> add another one.  I can probably
> eliminate the ktime_get() and use something based on jiffies. That will
> be inaccurate for the instable case of course.

hm.  People (ab)use sched_clock() for all sorts of things nowadays.  I wouldn't
do anything to degrade it just on behalf of printk-timestamping.
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