on 09/07/2009 21:00 Thomas Backman said the following: > On Jul 9, 2009, at 19:31, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> There are at least the following two alternatives: >> >> 1. Keep things as they are and warn users not to change CPU clock >> frequency when >> they use DTrace and the CPU doesn't have invariant TSC. I think that >> this should >> cause only minor inconveniences to a portion of DTrace users. > Hmm, but "things as they are" causes an overflow about every 10 seconds, > so the value is quite useless now (which, of course, you know about, > having written a patch for it :) This is because of a deficiency in the implementation of the formula, not because of the formula itself. > Is scenario #1 after the patch (PR kern/127441 for the rest of you) or not? Yes, after the patch :) -- Andriy GaponReceived on Thu Jul 09 2009 - 16:20:53 UTC
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