Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 20:45:37 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.org, mark@grondar.za, Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Subject: Re: new monotime() call for all architectures. Message-ID: <3A174CE1.768B3AB6@softweyr.com> References: <XFMail.001118112824.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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John Baldwin wrote:
>
> On 18-Nov-00 Wes Peters wrote:
> > John Baldwin wrote:
> >>
> >> On 17-Nov-00 Jonathan Lemon wrote:
> >> > 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)
> >>
> >> Let's just go back to CS 101 days and call it my_function().
> >
> > Sorry, Mr. Baldwin, you just got a "D" in your assignment.
>
> Good thing I've already graduated then. :)
>
> > Since the function appears to return an increasing nonsensical counter,
> > "foo" seems somehow appropriate.
>
> Depends on what school you attended. 'qux' is another decent candidate.
Only for a bunch of latin-studying eggheads. John, meet Grog.
And besides, my foo can beat up your qux any day.
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