Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756927Ab0KLKbt (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Nov 2010 05:31:49 -0500 Received: from www.tglx.de ([62.245.132.106]:52169 "EHLO www.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755949Ab0KLKbs (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Nov 2010 05:31:48 -0500 Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:31:18 +0100 (CET) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Linus Walleij cc: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Uwe_Kleine-K=F6nig?= , john stultz , Rabin VINCENT , Nicolas Pitre , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Colin Cross , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] RFC: nomadik: expand timesource to 63 bits In-Reply-To: <4CDD120A.2050401@stericsson.com> Message-ID: References: <1289466356-16697-1-git-send-email-linus.walleij@stericsson.com> <20101112095739.GH18358@pengutronix.de> <4CDD120A.2050401@stericsson.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="-1463795968-1634550170-1289557879=:2900" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1117 Lines: 30 This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. ---1463795968-1634550170-1289557879=:2900 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Linus Walleij wrote: > Uwe Kleine-K?nig wrote: > > > Instead of implementing sched_clock for each architecture seperatly, > > wouldn't it be nice to have a generic sched_clock that uses the > > architecture's clocksource? I tried to implement that some time ago, > > but tglx shoot it down because of locking problems. > > I was and still am a big fan of this approach, I am willing to help > testing it if you want to dust off this patch set... sched_clock is not necessarily the same as the current clocksource. Thanks, tglx ---1463795968-1634550170-1289557879=:2900-- -- 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/