linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [15/58] i386: Rewrite sched

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Message-Id: <200707191922.34388.ak@suse.de>
Date:	Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:22:34 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>
Cc:	patches@...-64.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [15/58] i386: Rewrite sched_clock

On Thursday 19 July 2007 19:15:38 Daniel Walker wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 19:13 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > What about using the cycles2ns() clocksource helpers, it would eliminate
> > > the duplication of the shift/multiply math .
> > 
> > They are completely different from what clocksource provides.
> 
> How so?

The new sched_clock's works CPU local and relative to the last sync point. 

-Andi
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