Re: 'global' rq->clock

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sat May 03 2008 - 04:29:52 EST



* Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Yeah, I was thinking of a way for architectures to signify how much
> help they need building the various clocks. Sparc, power and s390
> would not need any help.

there's already such a mechanism in sched-devel.git (and has been there
for a week or two): an architecture can set time_sync_thresh to -1LL
during early bootup and essentially disable all the synchronization
logic.

Ingo
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