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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708011525560.1817@scrub.home>
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 15:33:17 +0200 (CEST)
From: Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CFS review
Hi,
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > especially if one already knows that
> > scheduler clock has only limited resolution (because it's based on
> > jiffies), it becomes possible to use mostly 32bit values.
>
> jiffies based sched_clock should be soon very rare. It's probably
> not worth optimizing for it.
I'm not so sure about that. sched_clock() has to be fast, so many archs
may want to continue to use jiffies. As soon as one does that one can also
save a lot of computational overhead by using 32bit instead of 64bit.
The question is then how easy that is possible.
bye, Roman
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