Re: sched_clock() uses are broken

[Mike Galbraith]

On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 03:07 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Other problem is that some people didn't RTFM and have started trying to
> use it for precise accounting :(

Are you talking about me perchance?  I don't really care about precision
_that_ much, though I certainly do want to tighten timeslice accounting.

Given that most people are going to end up using the pm_timer anyway, I
don't see the point of even having a sched_clock().  If it's jiffy
resolution, it's useless.  If it's wildly inaccurate (as it is in the
SMP case, monotonicity issues aside) it's more than useless.

	-Mike

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