Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964926AbWEBQyi (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 May 2006 12:54:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964927AbWEBQyi (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 May 2006 12:54:38 -0400 Received: from zcars04f.nortel.com ([47.129.242.57]:17286 "EHLO zcars04f.nortel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964926AbWEBQyi (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 May 2006 12:54:38 -0400 Message-ID: <44578EB9.8050402@nortel.com> Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 10:54:17 -0600 From: "Christopher Friesen" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040115 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen CC: Russell King , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: sched_clock() uses are broken References: <20060502132953.GA30146@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 May 2006 16:54:19.0266 (UTC) FILETIME=[0DD80620:01C66E09] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 518 Lines: 15 Andi Kleen wrote: > Agreed it's a problem, but probably a small one. At worst you'll get > a small scheduling hickup every half year, which should be hardly > that big an issue. Presumably this would be bad for soft-realtime embedded things. Set-top boxes, etc. Chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/