Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: a faster way to gettimeofday? | From | Chris Ball <> | Date | 06 Mar 2002 21:31:10 +0000 |
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>>>>> "dean" == dean gaudet <dean-list-linux-kernel@arctic.org> writes:
dean> ingo started the proper work for this, for example, see: dean> <http://people.redhat.com/mingo/vsyscall-patches/vsyscall-2.3.32-F4> dean> (there's a documentation file near the bottom of the patch) dean> but it doesn't appear to support gettimeofday via rdtsc yet.
Interesting patch; when last I looked, vsyscalls were only being implemented on the new 64-bit architectures.
Does this patch break binary compatibility? I seem to recall that being Andrea's reason for not running vsyscalls on standard x86 back in August last year.
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