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At Tue, 25 Jul 2006 17:39:01 -0400,
Jim Gettys wrote:
> 
> Keith's the expert (who wrote the smart scheduler): I'd take a wild ass
> guess that 10ms is good enough.
> 
> Maybe people can keep him on the cc list this time...
>                              - Jim

I talked to Keith about this at OLS and we agreed that a coarse
counter (probably incremented along with jiffies) accessible via
a vsyscall would be enough. I'm looking into this in the next days.

	tglx