Re: 'global' rq->clock

[David Miller]

From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 10:28:50 +0200

> * Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Yeah, I was thinking of a way for architectures to signify how much 
> > help they need building the various clocks. Sparc, power and s390 
> > would not need any help.
> 
> there's already such a mechanism in sched-devel.git (and has been there 
> for a week or two): an architecture can set time_sync_thresh to -1LL 
> during early bootup and essentially disable all the synchronization 
> logic.

Does it remove all of the code too? :-)

Please give us a config boolean.  The only platform for which
a run-time knob is even necessary is x86.

Thanks.
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