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From: Anders Blomdell <anders.blomdell@domain.hid>
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Subject: Re: [Xenomai-core] ns vs. tsc as internal timer base
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To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@domain.hid>
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Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> To avoid loosing the optimisation again in ns_to_tsc, I thought about
> basing the whole internal timer arithmetics on nanoseconds instead of
> TSCs as it is now. 
Good idea, makes it simpler to adopt to laptop frequency scaling and deep ACPI 
sleep, i.e. sync Xenomai time to the ACPI timer.

/Anders

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