In message <20090329180745.GB38985_at_server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>, Peter Jeremy write s: >>I'm assuming folks are still in love with the TSC because it still the >>cheapest as oppose ACPI-fast or HPET to even contemplate this? > >That is its major advantage. It might be feasible to export all the >data necessary to implement the complete CLOCK_*_FAST family. The general attraction is that it can be read from userland by unpriviledged programs. On systems where the ACPI or HPET hardware can be memory-mapped, I should be equally possible to map those read-only into userland processes. Now _THAT_ would be interesting. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk_at_FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.Received on Mon Mar 30 2009 - 05:32:45 UTC
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