linux-kernel - Re: [patch] x86_64: fix sched

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Date:	Fri, 25 May 2007 10:16:53 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] x86_64: fix sched_clock()


* Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl> wrote:

> On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 09:54 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > Subject: [patch] x86_64: fix sched_clock()
> > From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
> > 
> > sched_clock() is totally broken on x86_64, because it is not defined by 
> > the architecture at all! It fell the victim to the opaqueness of 
> > __attribute__((weak)) and to non-testing.
> > 
> > the i386 version was supposed to be used. This patch fixes that. Booted 
> > and tested on x86_64 and i386.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
> 
> This does indeed solve my issue.

great! Btw., this is also accidental proof that CFS works well even with 
a jiffies granularity sched_clock() ;-)

	Ingo
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