Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 02 May 2006 15:23:01 -0400 (EDT) | From | Nicolas Pitre <> | Subject | Re: sched_clock() uses are broken |
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On Tue, 2 May 2006, Russell King wrote:
> On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 03:05:22PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > If we're discussing the addition of a sched_clock_diff(), why whouldn't > > shed_clock() return anything it wants in that context? It could be > > redefined to have a return value meaningful only to shed_clock_diff()? > > If we're talking about doing that, we need to replace sched_clock() > to ensure that we all users are aware that it has changed. > > I did think about that for my original fix proposal, but stepped back > because that's a bigger change - and is something for post-2.6.17. > The smallest fix (suitable for -rc kernels) is as I detailed.
Oh agreed.
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