Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 21:36:47 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] - Move call to calc_load()
Message-ID: <20060321203647.GA26135@elte.hu>
References: <20060321203249.GA16182@sgi.com>
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* Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> wrote:

> Here is the patch that I am proposing. This patch is incomplete 
> because it addresses only the IA64 architecture. If this approach is 
> acceptible, I'll update the patch to cover all architectures.
> 
> 	Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>

would be nice to base this on the GTOD patchset - that way you'll only 
have to modify kernel/time/*.c, not a gazillion of architectures...

i agree with your analysis - there is no reason calc_load() should be 
under xtime_lock. I guess no-one noticed this so far because calc_load() 
iterating over hundreds of CPUs isnt too common.

	Ingo
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