[PATCH] RFC: nomadik: expand timesource to 63 bits
Thomas Gleixner
tglx at linutronix.de
Fri Nov 12 05:31:18 EST 2010
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Linus Walleij wrote:
> Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
>
> > Instead of implementing sched_clock for each architecture seperatly,
> > wouldn't it be nice to have a generic sched_clock that uses the
> > architecture's clocksource? I tried to implement that some time ago,
> > but tglx shoot it down because of locking problems.
>
> I was and still am a big fan of this approach, I am willing to help
> testing it if you want to dust off this patch set...
sched_clock is not necessarily the same as the current clocksource.
Thanks,
tglx
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