From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263453AbTLTPFb (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Dec 2003 10:05:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263609AbTLTPFa (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Dec 2003 10:05:30 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:55707 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263453AbTLTPFY (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Dec 2003 10:05:24 -0500 Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 07:05:32 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Nick Piggin Cc: mingo@elte.hu, hawkes@babylon.engr.sgi.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, johnstul@us.ibm.com Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] 2.6.0-test11 sched_clock() broken for "drifty ITC" Message-Id: <20031220070532.05b7b268.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <3FE46345.1040102@cyberone.com.au> References: <200312182044.hBIKiCLY5477429@babylon.engr.sgi.com> <20031220105031.GA17848@elte.hu> <3FE46345.1040102@cyberone.com.au> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Nick Piggin wrote: > > > > Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > >So i believe the generic relaxing of sched_clock() synchronization is > >the right thing to do. I like your patch. It adds minimal overhead and > >solves a hard problem - nice work! Andrew, please apply it. > > > > > > Its a great looking patch if you must have high res sched_clock. So > I guess I agree with it. miaow ;) > Can we have a scheduler day when Andrew is ready to take patches for > it? I have a few small changes that I'd like to get merged soon too > (not sched domains - that should probably go to the mm tree for a while) > > Relevant patches are > sched-ctx-count-preempt.patch > sched-fork-cleanup.patch > sched-migrate-comment.patch > sched-style.patch > sched-migrate-affinity-race.patch > Post 'em.