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SubjectRE: [patch 01/18] x86, bts: fix race when bts tracer is removed
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Metzger, Markus T
>Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 8:20 AM
>To: Ingo Molnar


>>Also, raw use of jiffies_64 is buggy and racy. Why does this use
>>jiffies to begin with - why not some finer grained time?
>
>What would be a good time to use?

I found cpu_clock() declared in sched.h, which is based on TSC and
seems to be used by the scheduler, as well.
Would this be a good time to use?

thanks,
markus.

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