>From: Thomas Gleixner [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Saturday, November 07, 2015 1:26 PM
>So that clocksource goes up to 1GHz. That means u32 fits ~4.29 seconds. Unless >you are striving for NOHZ idle sleep times above that there is no point in >doing that 64bit dance. > >The timekeeping code is perfectly fine with a 32bit value. You just have to >set the proper mask. We do it because we do indeed care very much for long NOHZ idle (and full) times on NPS, hence the song and dance. -Noam -- 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/
