linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sched: Support current clocksource handling in fallback sched

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0905270223550.1762@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Wed, 27 May 2009 02:27:21 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>
cc:	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.ml.walleij@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Victor <linux@...im.org.za>,
	Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@...el.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-sh@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: Support current clocksource handling in fallback
 sched_clock().

John,

On Tue, 26 May 2009, john stultz wrote:
> > See, this is what I thought the rating information was useful for, as the
> > rating is subsequently dropped if it is not usable. But perhaps it makes
> > more sense to just clear the bit at the same time that the rating is
> > lowered once it turns out to be unstable.
> 
> Yes, if we're dropping a clocksource we should also drop the bit. That
> shouldn't be a problem.
> 
> The point I was making, is that multiple clocksources may be registered
> at one time (TSC, ACPI_PM, etc). But only one is being managed by the
> timekeeping code (clock). So there may be the case where the
> sched_clock() is different then the timekeeping clock (which is common
> on x86). 
> 
> So I suspect we need a special hook that grabs the best _SCHED_CLOCK
> clocksource (as computed at clocksource registration time) and provides
> it to the generic sched_clock() interface.

this is not about x86 and its inferiour timer hardware
implementation. We talk about sane architectures which do not have
that problems at all. x86 takes a different code path and overrides
the generic weak sched_clock implememtation anyway. So what ?

Thanks,

	tglx
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