From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 7 11:39:42 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79F7616A41F for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 11:39:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from michael.schuh@gmail.com) Received: from nproxy.gmail.com (nproxy.gmail.com [64.233.182.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E03E643D49 for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 11:39:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from michael.schuh@gmail.com) Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id l24so113001nfc for ; Mon, 07 Nov 2005 03:39:40 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=h3GEriGiI8IucicLBw5YDGEhbb2wrpo9XbcVzVgFZ3KYdcormlqIueXZwO61wy3Pp2J0SPzeiU84I8PcZ6aTaZP9pCdFg+KfDbTlbZt+vFGZczjZaOKLyYyGxwVpV4W1ekkqpEHBzwZSChJeQV/QXxSAtyIhEaaZyGdSNgj8NAg= Received: by 10.48.229.12 with SMTP id b12mr1053494nfh; Mon, 07 Nov 2005 03:39:40 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.48.43.6 with HTTP; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 03:39:40 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <1dbad3150511070339k15a99854r@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 12:39:40 +0100 From: Michael Schuh To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Subject: timecounter and Hz quality in kern RELENG_6 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 11:39:42 -0000 Hello, i be very surprised about the performance of RELENG_6. Congratulations to the entire Team for this very good work. Now i have 2 Machines installed with 6.0-RC1, and i have seen that on both machines the Hz is differntly with GENERIC-Kernel. Machine A is an Sempron 2400+ that runs as 2500+ (i have tuned the clock to best RAM-Performace) Machine B is an Duron 700MHz On Machine A i got an Hz from 2000 effectively systat -vmstat 1 show me 2000 IRQ/s on clk sysctl say's 1000....i think, but not sure On Machine B i got an Hz from 1000 effectively systat-vmstat 1 show me 1000 IRQ/s on clk After digging in the source i have found that timec.c have an routine for computing the so called "Hz quality". Can anyone explain me the "mystics" behind Hz quality, and why or how this quality is computed and what are the efforts? My knowledge is not deep enough to know these details. thanks best regards michael