Re: sched_clock() uses are broken

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Tue, 2 May 2006, Russell King wrote:

> On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 03:05:22PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > If we're discussing the addition of a sched_clock_diff(), why whouldn't 
> > shed_clock() return anything it wants in that context?  It could be 
> > redefined to have a return value meaningful only to shed_clock_diff()?
> 
> If we're talking about doing that, we need to replace sched_clock()
> to ensure that we all users are aware that it has changed.
> 
> I did think about that for my original fix proposal, but stepped back
> because that's a bigger change - and is something for post-2.6.17.
> The smallest fix (suitable for -rc kernels) is as I detailed.

Oh agreed.


Nicolas
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