Re: [patch] x86_64: fix sched_clock()

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* Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 09:54 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > Subject: [patch] x86_64: fix sched_clock()
> > From: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
> > 
> > sched_clock() is totally broken on x86_64, because it is not defined by 
> > the architecture at all! It fell the victim to the opaqueness of 
> > __attribute__((weak)) and to non-testing.
> > 
> > the i386 version was supposed to be used. This patch fixes that. Booted 
> > and tested on x86_64 and i386.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
> 
> This does indeed solve my issue.

great! Btw., this is also accidental proof that CFS works well even with 
a jiffies granularity sched_clock() ;-)

	Ingo
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