Re: [patch 0/9] x86_64: reliable TSC-based gettimeofday

* Andi Kleen <[email protected]> wrote:

> The big strategic problem is how to marry your patchkit to John 
> Stultz's clocksources work which is also competing for merge. Any 
> thoughts on that?

the only sane thing would be to do it ontop of -mm: the stuff in -mm, 
barring some catastrophy, is hopefully destined for v2.6.21. We could do 
my quick optional hack for those who want fast gettimeofday now ahead of 
that queue - but this approximation thing should be definitely ontop.

	Ingo
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