From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Nov 17 11:58:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [198.78.58.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22DEF37B4C5; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 11:58:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (from fullermd@localhost) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA28899; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 13:55:24 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 13:55:24 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: John Baldwin , John Hay , mark@grondar.za, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new monotime() call for all architectures. Message-ID: <20001117135523.B20231@futuresouth.com> References: <26014.974490789@critter> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <26014.974490789@critter>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 08:53:09PM +0100 X-OS: FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 08:53:09PM +0100, a little birdie told me that Poul-Henning Kamp remarked > > >> 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 :-) OK, how about bogotime(9)? ;) -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Unix Systems Administrator | fullermd@futuresouth.com Specializing in FreeBSD | http://www.over-yonder.net/ "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message