Re: [PATCH 05/16] sched: SCHED_DEADLINE policy implementation.

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Apr 23 2012 - 17:59:08 EST


On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 22:55 +0100, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote:
> why not write this straight in asm, i.e., multiply 64*64 then divide by
> 64 keeping the intermediate result on 128 bits?

If you know of a way to do this for all 30 odd architectures supported
by our beloved kernel, do let me know ;-)

Yes I can do it for x86_64, but people tend to get mighty upset if you
break the compile for all other arches...
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