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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Martin Peschke <mp3@de.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch 5/6] statistics infrastructure
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 12:19:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060530121920.8c8f5d34.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <447C7E1F.7020602@de.ibm.com>

On Tue, 30 May 2006 19:17:19 +0200
Martin Peschke <mp3@de.ibm.com> wrote:

> Would I get away with making printk_clock() a timestamp_clock() that
> should be used by anyone exporting nsec_to_timestamp()-formated time
> stamps to user space, including me?
> 
> I would then continue to see the use of sched_clock() in printk_clock()
> ... aehm timestamp_clock() as somebody else's problem (or at least
> as a subordinate problem).

Sure, a generic kernel-wide nsec-resolution timestamp_clock() makes sense
to me.

The default implementation can use sched_clock() but arch maintainers
can/should override it (vai attribute-weak) and do somethnig better.


  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-30 19:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-24 12:33 Martin Peschke
2006-05-24 22:57 ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-29 22:17   ` Martin Peschke
2006-05-30  1:17     ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-29 22:17   ` [Patch] statistics infrastructure - update 1 Martin Peschke
2006-05-30  8:07     ` Heiko Carstens
2006-05-30 11:22       ` Martin Peschke
2006-05-30 17:17   ` [Patch 5/6] statistics infrastructure Martin Peschke
2006-05-30 19:19     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-05-25  8:05 ` Nikita Danilov
2006-05-30 11:35   ` Martin Peschke
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-05-19 16:13 Martin Peschke
2005-12-16 12:27 [patch " Martin Peschke
2005-12-14 16:46 Martin Peschke
2005-12-14 18:38 ` Andi Kleen
2005-12-16  1:00   ` Martin Peschke

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