Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Dec 2003 12:16:22 -0800 (PST) | From | John Hawkes <> | Subject | Re: [Lse-tech] Re: [RFC][PATCH] 2.6.0-test11 sched_clock() broken for "drifty ITC" |
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> [ Martin Bligh writes: ] > Is there any harm in dropping the first part of your patch, ie. ... > > diff -X /home/hawkes/Patches/ignore.dirs -Naur linux-2.6.0/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c linux-2.6.0-schedclock2/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c ... > and leaving the rest of it? the CONFIG_NUMA affects both NUMA-Q and Summit, > BTW, which uses the cyclone timer, so it gets even more complex ;-)
No, no harm. Leaving out that timer_tsc.c part means only that i386 CONFIG_NUMA continues to use "jiffies" as the timebase, which is a low-resolution timebase and may affect the quality of some of the interactive scheduling decisions.
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