Re: [patch 0/9] x86_64: reliable TSC-based gettimeofday

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Feb 01 2007 - 07:19:03 EST



* Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> The big strategic problem is how to marry your patchkit to John
> Stultz's clocksources work which is also competing for merge. Any
> thoughts on that?

the only sane thing would be to do it ontop of -mm: the stuff in -mm,
barring some catastrophy, is hopefully destined for v2.6.21. We could do
my quick optional hack for those who want fast gettimeofday now ahead of
that queue - but this approximation thing should be definitely ontop.

Ingo
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