Re: + clocksource-increase-initcall-priority.patch added to -mmtree

[Daniel Walker]

On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 23:20 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 14:15 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > > 
> > > Which one exactly? I'm not aware of a problem with the existing code at
> > > all.
> > 
> > Clock shuffling.
> 
> What's the problem with that ? It replaces clocks. Where _is_ the
> problem ?

The problem is that it's not optimal to have clocks switching furiously.
This is something John notes as an issue in the unchanged
kernel/time/clocksource.c file.

Daniel


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