From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Nov 18 19:44:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05E5837B479; Sat, 18 Nov 2000 19:44:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13xLQ9-0000YC-00; Sat, 18 Nov 2000 20:45:37 -0700 Message-ID: <3A174CE1.768B3AB6@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 20:45:37 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin Cc: chat@FreeBSD.org, mark@grondar.za, Jonathan Lemon , Greg Lehey Subject: Re: new monotime() call for all architectures. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message