linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/5] lockstat: core infrastructure

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Message-ID: <20070530132431.GA23947@elte.hu>
Date:	Wed, 30 May 2007 15:24:31 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Bill Huey <billh@...ppy.monkey.org>,
	Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] lockstat: core infrastructure


* Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com> wrote:

> [...] Most architecture implement a jiffies sched_clock() w/ 1 
> millisecond or worse resolution.. [...]

weird that you count importance by 'number of architectures', while 98% 
of the installed server base is x86 or x86_64, where sched_clock() is 
pretty precise ;-)

	Ingo
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