Re: PATCH - update TSC freq when cpufreq changes it

From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk>
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:23:21 +0000
In message <45E5D760.4030409_at_root.org>, Nate Lawson writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>It's a valid question, but mostly irrelevant.

Not at all.  It may be a lot cheaper for us to just use the
value from the ACPI than to calibrate.  Only in the increasingly
rare case where TSC is used for timecounter AND the system isn't
using NTP is the precise frequency really interesting.

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Received on Wed Feb 28 2007 - 19:23:23 UTC

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