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From: Greg Lindahl <lindahl@keyresearch.com>
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] synchronized CPU count registers on SMP machines
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 13:06:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030605200632.GA1513@greglaptop.internal.keyresearch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030605095348.C25414@mvista.com>

On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 09:53:48AM -0700, Jun Sun wrote:

> 1) yes, it is always possible to use some external system-wide
> timer source, if available, to solve this problem.  However, that could
> get tricky too, and I wanted to do something generic which is hopefully 
> applicable to more systems.

Such sources are generally both much lower resolution, and they take a
long time to read. But a _consistent_ but higher overhead, lower
resolution number is better than an inconsistent number.

greg

  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-05 20:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-04 22:39 [RFC] synchronized CPU count registers on SMP machines Jun Sun
2003-06-04 22:51 ` Michael Uhler
2003-06-04 22:51   ` Michael Uhler
2003-06-04 23:44   ` Jun Sun
2003-06-04 23:15 ` Ralf Baechle
2003-06-04 23:46   ` Jun Sun
2003-06-05  0:12     ` Ralf Baechle
2003-06-05  1:38       ` Jun Sun
2003-06-05  8:09         ` Dominic Sweetman
2003-06-05  8:48           ` Ralf Baechle
2003-06-05 16:53             ` Jun Sun
2003-06-05 20:06               ` Greg Lindahl [this message]
2003-06-05 10:45       ` Alan Cox
2003-06-05  8:55     ` Kevin D. Kissell
2003-06-05  8:55       ` Kevin D. Kissell
2003-06-05  8:51       ` Ralf Baechle
2003-06-05 11:08       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-06-05  0:18 ` Keith Owens
     [not found] <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2003-06-05  9:23 ` Tor Arntsen

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