Re: [patch] block: fix blktrace timestamps

[Ingo Molnar]

* Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Correction: it was not a high res time source, it was "the 
> > scheduler's per-cpu, non-exported, non-coherent, 
> > warps-and-jumps-like-hell high-res timesource that was intentionally 
> > called the _sched_ clock" ;-)
> 
> I think the warts of cpu_clock() are fixable, except maybe 
> unsynchronization on SMP which is harder.

yes - but in terms of v2.6.24, the bkltrace patch i sent is a lot less 
risky.

	Ingo
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