Re: non-invariant tsc and cputicker

From: Andriy Gapon <avg_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 20:56:32 +0200
on 06/12/2010 20:34 Jung-uk Kim said the following:
> I understand that.  However, it is not clear to me why you want to 
> pessimize performance of old hardware.  If you can convince me old 
> hardware with slow timecounter hardware (e.g., i8254) does not hurt 
> too much, maybe it's okay.

Overlooked this point - TSC can be very well used as a timecounter.
And in that case non-invariant TSC would veto P-state changes, which is the proper
thing to do, IMO.

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Andriy Gapon
Received on Mon Dec 06 2010 - 17:56:35 UTC

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