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 :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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