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Date:      Fri, 17 Nov 2000 14:10:37 -0600
From:      Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, mark@grondar.za, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: new monotime() call for all architectures.
Message-ID:  <20001117141037.E19895@prism.flugsvamp.com>
In-Reply-To: <14869.36912.901949.718314@nomad.yogotech.com>
References:  <20001117135523.B20231@futuresouth.com> <26172.974492540@critter> <14869.36912.901949.718314@nomad.yogotech.com>

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On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 01:08:16PM -0700, Nate Williams wrote:
> > >> >> 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)?   ;)
> > 
> > It's not returning units of any known time.  "bogocount()" maybe...
> 
> How about 'slushycounter()'?

falseticker()?  (Okay, probably too NTP specfic)
--
Jonathan


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