Re: Is the TSC timecounter safe on SMP system?

From: David G. Lawrence <dg_at_dglawrence.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 05:55:03 -0700
> Can someone please elaborate on the acronym TSC ? 
> Please no comments about google etc been there done that and it wasn't useful.

   TSC is the Time Stamp Counter. It is a profiling counter internal to
modern Pentium processors that counts core frequency clock ticks.

-DG

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