* Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [...] We can argue that sched_clock is "good enough". If someone
> wants better accounting of locks on some other arch, they can simply
> change sched_clock to be more precise.
exactly. Imprecise sched_clock() if there's a better fast clock source
available is a bug in the architecture code. If the only available
clocksource is 1 msec resolution then there's no solution and nothing to
talk about - lock statistics will be 1msec granular just as much as
scheduling.
Ingo
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