Re: [RFC] sched_clock: Track monotonic raw clock

From: Pawel Moll
Date: Tue Jul 22 2014 - 12:17:57 EST


On Fri, 2014-07-18 at 20:34 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 12:25:48PM -0700, John Stultz wrote:
> > Also, assuming we someday will merge the x86 sched_clock logic into
> > the generic sched_clock code, we'll have to handle cases where they
> > aren't the same.
>
> I prefer that to not happen. I spend quite a bit of time and effort to
> make the x86 code go fast, and that generic code doesn't look like fast
> at all.

Actually one of my long-ish time goals to is to speed it up (withing the
generic framework) for arm64 as well, so we may get back to the
discussion then :-)

Pawel

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