linux-kernel - Re: cpu_clock confusion

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Message-Id: <20080424.022404.151729194.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:24:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	johannes@...solutions.net
Cc:	mingo@...e.hu, benh@...abs.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	arndb@...ibm.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tglx@...utronix.de
Subject: Re: cpu_clock confusion

From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:21:52 +0200

> Hmm. Why is that whole cpu_clock stuff in place anyway? powerpc has
> perfectly synchronised time across processors with dirt cheap access to
> it as well, so why build all this code that only messes it up on top of
> it?

Same on sparc64.  These changes add more bugs than they fix.
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