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SubjectRe: cpu_clock confusion
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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