From: Jes Sorensen <jes@wildopensource.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] provide /proc/sal/itc_drift through AUX?
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 02:04:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590723705282@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590723705273@msgid-missing>
>>>>> "David" = David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com> writes:
>>>>> On 19 Mar 2003 21:06:20 -0500, Jes Sorensen <jes@wildopensource.com> said:
Jes> Let me get sure I understand you right here, you are suggesting I
Jes> add a new syscall to provide the info currently found in
Jes> /proc/sal/itc_drift? Right now it's just returning true/false
Jes> (1/0) as to whether the ITC drifts or not.
David> No, not at all. I was simply suggesting to always use
David> gettimeofday(). The light-weight implementation of
David> gettimeofday() runs in ~130 cycles, which isn't much slower
David> than what you could do in user-level.
Ok, that makes it even simpler, I will do that then.
Cheers,
Jes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-21 2:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-19 21:39 [Linux-ia64] provide /proc/sal/itc_drift through AUX? Jes Sorensen
2003-03-19 23:54 ` David Mosberger
2003-03-20 2:06 ` Jes Sorensen
2003-03-20 19:57 ` David Mosberger
2003-03-20 23:55 ` Rich Altmaier
2003-03-21 0:43 ` David Mosberger
2003-03-21 2:04 ` Jes Sorensen [this message]
2003-03-21 17:49 ` Jes Sorensen
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