Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 13:55:24 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za>, mark@grondar.za, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new monotime() call for all architectures. Message-ID: <20001117135523.B20231@futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <26014.974490789@critter>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 08:53:09PM %2B0100 References: <XFMail.001117112400.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <26014.974490789@critter>
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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
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