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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add an offset in the cyc2ns computation to fix
	sched_clock jumps
From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
To: Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@gmail.com>
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On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 19:14 +0100, Guillaume Chazarain wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The scheduling problems I reported in the thread:
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/3/128
> are caused by the set_cyc2ns_scale() function called when the CPU speed changes.
> Changing the scale causes a warp in the value returned by sched_clock().
> 

Did you explain what the "werirdnes" was exactly? If not, could you?

Daniel