Re: [PATCH 3/5] lockstat: core infrastructure

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Jun 01 2007 - 09:13:25 EST



* Daniel Walker <dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 19:16 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> > I think you are mistaken here; the two are similar but not
> > identical.
> >
> > I see sched_clock() as fast first, accurate second. Whereas the
> > clocksource thing is accurate first, fast second.
>
> This is true .. However, if there is a speed different it's small.

Ugh. Have you ever compared pmtimer (or even hpet) against TSC based
sched_clock()? What you write is so wrong that it's not even funny. You
keep repeating this nonsense despite having been told multiple times
that you are dead wrong.

Ingo
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