Re: [PATCH] sched: avoid unnecessary overflow in sched_clock

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 23:08 -0800, Paul Turner wrote:
> Probably a good idea -- This especially sucks rocks in the sched_clock_stable==1 
> case; resulting in it coming straight back out of sched_clock_cpu() and trashing 
> rq->clock. 

There's another problem there in that TSC will wrap too soon and things
will blow up in your face that way.


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