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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: a faster way to gettimeofday? rdtsc strangeness
Date: 7 Mar 2002 10:32:36 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a68bo4$b18$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16iz57-0002SW-00@the-village.bc.nu> <1015515815.4373.61.camel@pc-16.office.scali.no>

Followup to:  <1015515815.4373.61.camel@pc-16.office.scali.no>
By author:    Terje Eggestad <terje.eggestad@scali.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> Can /proc/cpuinfo really be trusted in figuring out how long a cycle is?
> 

It uses RDTSC, so yes.

	-hpa
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-03-07 18:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-06  3:41 a faster way to gettimeofday? Ben Greear
2002-03-06  3:58 ` Davide Libenzi
2002-03-06  4:20   ` Ben Greear
2002-03-06  4:31     ` Davide Libenzi
2002-03-06  4:34       ` Davide Libenzi
2002-03-07 14:14       ` a faster way to gettimeofday? rdtsc strangeness Terje Eggestad
2002-03-07 14:41         ` Alan Cox
2002-03-07 15:43           ` Terje Eggestad
2002-03-07 16:17             ` Alan Cox
2002-03-07 18:32             ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2002-03-08  1:32               ` Jamie Lokier
2002-03-08  1:35                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-08  1:57                   ` Jamie Lokier
2002-03-08 18:30                     ` gettimeofday() system call timing curiosity Jamie Lokier
2002-03-08 18:50                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-08 20:16                         ` Jamie Lokier
2002-03-08 20:30                           ` Davide Libenzi
2002-03-08 18:54                       ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-03-08 19:06                         ` johan.adolfsson
2002-03-08 19:16                           ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-08 19:45                           ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-03-08 20:29                             ` johan.adolfsson
2002-03-08 20:43                             ` Alan Cox
2002-03-09  3:03                               ` pjd
2002-03-09 18:51                                 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-09  3:15                             ` Kelsey Hudson
2002-03-08 19:19                         ` Alan Cox
2002-03-08 20:40                         ` george anzinger
2002-03-06 20:45     ` a faster way to gettimeofday? dean gaudet
2002-03-06 21:31       ` Chris Ball
2002-03-06 22:25         ` george anzinger
2002-03-07  0:04         ` vsyscalls Mark Mielke
2002-03-06 16:16 ` a faster way to gettimeofday? Chris Friesen
2002-03-06 16:54   ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-03-11 22:47 ` OBATA Noboru
2002-03-12 13:06   ` Jamie Lokier
2002-03-12 15:12     ` OBATA Noboru

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