From: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: tigran@veritas.com (Tigran Aivazian),
mikpe@csd.uu.se (Mikael Pettersson), ledzep37@home.com (Jordan),
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Linux Kernel)
Subject: Re: Error in x86 CPU capabilities starting with test5/6
Date: 17 Nov 2000 13:51:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <qwwpujuvk1s.fsf@sap.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E13wkLK-0000bP-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: Alan Cox's message of "Fri, 17 Nov 2000 12:10:07 +0000 (GMT)"
Hi Alan,
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> Even checking the cpuinfo for the TSC should be done with care, and
> its far far better to use gettimeofday unless doing very tiny
> timings (eg for optimising code paths)
gettimeofday is _way_ to slow for a lot of every day uses. So
applications will use rdtsc until we have some really fast
(non-syscall) way to have high resolution time diffs.
Greetings
Christoph
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-17 9:50 Error in x86 CPU capabilities starting with test5/6 Jordan
2000-11-17 11:39 ` Mikael Pettersson
2000-11-17 11:58 ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-11-17 12:10 ` Alan Cox
2000-11-17 12:51 ` Christoph Rohland [this message]
2000-11-17 13:08 ` Jeff Garzik
2000-11-17 13:21 ` Christoph Rohland
2000-11-17 13:31 ` Andi Kleen
2000-11-17 13:40 ` Jeff Garzik
2000-11-17 13:54 ` Andi Kleen
2000-11-17 14:02 ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-11-17 14:30 ` Christoph Rohland
2000-11-17 14:50 ` Alan Cox
2000-11-17 14:00 ` Arjan van de Ven
2000-11-17 15:18 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-17 16:06 ` Christoph Rohland
2000-11-17 18:28 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-18 9:57 ` Christoph Rohland
2000-11-19 10:31 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2000-11-17 13:38 ` Mikael Pettersson
2000-11-17 12:04 ` Andi Kleen
2000-11-17 12:14 ` Jan Niehusmann
2000-11-17 12:22 ` Andi Kleen
2000-11-17 13:26 ` Mohammad A. Haque
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