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Date:      Fri, 17 Nov 2000 20:53:09 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za>, mark@grondar.za, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: new monotime() call for all architectures. 
Message-ID:  <26014.974490789@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 17 Nov 2000 11:24:00 PST." <XFMail.001117112400.jhb@FreeBSD.org> 

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>> Ok, I just thought the "mono" in his function name is for monotonic. If
>> you are staying on one processor it will work, but if the timestamps
>> have scheduling inbetween the timestamps and you land on a different
>> processor it won't be monotonic anymore.
>
>It's close enough. :)

If it isn't dealing properly with async PCC/TSC counters on SMP machines
it shouldn't be called "monoanyting".

I guess I totally object to the name now :-)

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