linux-kernel - Re: [RFC patch 7/7] timekeeping: Hack to use fine grained timestamps during boot

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Date:   Tue, 28 Nov 2017 21:38:34 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@...roid.com>
Cc:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC patch 7/7] timekeeping: Hack to use fine grained timestamps
 during boot

On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 12:29:38PM -0800, Mark Salyzyn wrote:
> To get closer to a sequential order of event delivery by timestamp, you
> really should take a global timestamp (I know, local clock is _not_ a global
> timestamp)

it is if you have a halfway sane machine