Re: [PATCH] [15/58] i386: Rewrite sched_clock

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Thu Jul 19 2007 - 13:22:55 EST


On Thursday 19 July 2007 19:15:38 Daniel Walker wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 19:13 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > What about using the cycles2ns() clocksource helpers, it would eliminate
> > > the duplication of the shift/multiply math .
> >
> > They are completely different from what clocksource provides.
>
> How so?

The new sched_clock's works CPU local and relative to the last sync point.

-Andi
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