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    SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH] sched_clock: also call register_current_timer_delay() if possible
    On 04/30/2014 02:48 PM, Will Deacon wrote:
    > Hi Sebastian,

    Hi Will,

    > As long as sched_clock is guaranteed to be a fixed frequency, always-on
    > clocksource then this could work, but it removes the flexibility of having
    > a separate delay clock and sched clock (is this useful?).



    > Looking at your patch, I noticed that we need to extend the
    > register_current_timer_delay function to deal with clocks that aren't as
    > wide as cycle_t, otherwise we don't delay() for long enough when the clock
    > overflows (this is potentially already an issue for architected timers <
    > 64-bit). Could you cook a patch for that please?

    Sure, I would change the type from long to u64 and fix all users. Would
    that be okay for you?

    >
    > Will

    Sebastian


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