[RFC] Shrink sched_clock some more

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, Stephen Boyd wrote:

> On 09/23/11 01:52, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > On 22/09/11 16:36, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> >> ... by getting rid of the fixed-constant optimization, and moving the
> >> update code into arch/arm/kernel/sched_clock.c.
> >>
> >> Platforms now only have to supply a function to read the sched_clock
> >> register, and some basic information such as the number of significant
> >> bits and the tick rate.
> > This looks similar to a patch I posted a while ago:
> > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/112318/
> >
> >
> 
> Can we get one of these two patches merged next merge window? I'd like
> to add sched_clock support to MSM and building on top of this patch is
> easier than the other way around.

Yes, I agree.  Any optimizations I might have suggested may be added 
later.


Nicolas