Messages in this thread | | | From | Gabriel Paubert <> | Date | Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:46:30 +0200 | Subject | Re: cpu_clock confusion |
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On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:27:37AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 02:24 -0700, David Miller wrote: > > From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> > > Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:21:52 +0200 > > > > > Hmm. Why is that whole cpu_clock stuff in place anyway? powerpc has > > > perfectly synchronised time across processors with dirt cheap access to > > > it as well, so why build all this code that only messes it up on top of > > > it? > > > > Same on sparc64. These changes add more bugs than they fix. > > I tend to think all this clock business should be done local to those > arches that aren't capable of providing cheap, useful synchronised and > accurate clocks themselves. Or be a lib that they can link in if needed. > As it stands, it seems to me that it all just penalises those > architectures that have decent clocks.
100% agreed.
Gabriel
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