Re: [Patch 1/4] Delay accounting: Initialization

[Peter Chubb]

>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> writes:

Andrew> Shailabh Nagar <nagar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>  + *ts = sched_clock();

Andrew> I'm not sure that it's kosher to use sched_clock() for
Andrew> fine-grained timestamping like this.  Ingo had issues with it
Andrew> last time this happened?

It wasn't Ingo, it was Andi Kleen...  for my Microstate Accounting
patches, which do very similar things to Shailabh's patchsetm, but
using /proc and a system call instead (following Solaris's lead)

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Dr Peter Chubb  http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au  peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au
The technical we do immediately,  the political takes *forever*
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