* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[email protected]> wrote: > How reliable does it need to be? All we need is to measure "about 10 > seconds"; if we can't get that out of it, how can it be good for > anything else? sched_clock(), as its name suggests it, is meant for the scheduler's use. The scheduler generally only needs to measure time when the CPU is busy - not across idle periods. So sched_clock() can (and will) break across certain types of ACPI idle methods. Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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