Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] linux-2.5.34_vsyscall_A0 | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 21 Oct 2002 14:18:22 +0100 |
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On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 17:13, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > It would be great to rework the whole TSC time of day stuff to work with > per cpu data and allow unsychronized TSC's like NUMA. The problem is > that for fast user level access, there would need to be some way to find
The timer isnt even necessarily constant rate. The tsc is a nice tool for debugging. Using it as a clock was not in the long run brilliant. Don't try and continue it further, we have ACPI and HPET and other better solutions in upcoming PC hardware.
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