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From: Wink Saville <wink@saville.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] x86: unify/rewrite SMP TSC sync code
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 01:15:53 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <456AACC9.10206@saville.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1164613914.3276.10.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>

Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> just to make sure, you do realize that when you write "ticks" that rdtsc
> doesn't measure cpu clock ticks or cpu cycles anymore, right? (At least
> not on your machine)
> 

Yes, that's why I wrote ticks and not cycles. At this point I'm not sure how to convert
ticks to time on my machine, something else to learn:) Hopefully the HPET
will resolve all of the issues.

Wink


  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-27  9:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2006-11-26  7:20           ` [patch] x86: unify/rewrite SMP TSC sync code Robert Hancock
2006-11-26  8:16             ` Wink Saville
2006-11-26  8:24               ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-26 19:48                 ` Wink Saville
2006-11-27  7:51                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-27  9:15                     ` Wink Saville [this message]
2006-11-27 17:23 Robert Crocombe
2006-11-27 18:41 ` Max Krasnyansky
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-11-24 17:02 Ingo Molnar
2006-11-24 17:13 ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-24 20:25   ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-24 20:37     ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-24 20:46       ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-24 21:06         ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-24 22:48     ` Ben Greear
2006-11-25  2:56     ` Wink Saville
2006-11-25  8:30       ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-25 16:58         ` Wink Saville
2006-11-25 17:41           ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-25 20:34             ` Wink Saville
2006-11-27 19:00   ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-29  7:13 ` Ingo Molnar

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