On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 01:41:44PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > AFAIK John simply wants to change jiffies to count in nanoseconds > since bootup and then call it "clock_monotonic".
Clocks and counter drift so calling it <prefix>seconds would be misleading. It would really only be good for approximate timing. I think call it something arbitrary and work towards have a separate mechanism for time of day (which could end up being much more expensive to use but less frrequently needed). > One 64 bit value no splitting into seconds and nanoseconds anymore. Using a 64-bit value is a pain on some (many?) 32-bit CPUs. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
