Re: [PATCH 2/2] i386: sched_clock() follows percpu frequency changes

On Saturday 12 May 2007 17:43:46 Daniel Walker wrote:
> Considering that Andi has a similar patch, I'm going to assume there
> is already justification for this..

I just have a patch for sched_clock, which is somewhat different.

> What it ends up doing is allows the TSC to be used in cases which
> we didn't use it before, and hope it's still mostly accurate.

Yes the current code is badly broken in this regard. e.g. i always
hated that it always falls back on powernow systems.

Jiri will hopefully repost his true per CPU TSC patch soon, that should
make it all obsolete.

-Andi
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