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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86: set_cyc2ns_scale() remove tsc_now and ns_now

* Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:

> (actually it is still the wrong time -- really needs a grace period
> during which the TSC is not used
> ftp://firstfloor.org/pub/ak/quilt/patches/sched-clock implemented some
> of these ideas against an older kernel)

recent CPUs have constant-freq TSCs so it's mostly a legacy issue, but
the affected installed base is still significant to warrant a fix.

we dont really have to worry about complications like grace periods -
higher layers in the scheduler protect against temporary sched_clock()
outliers. So i think this can all be done much simpler. Just get rid of
the global cpu_khz notion, sched_clock() should simply follow the ->freq
value - and that's it.

Ingo


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