Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 05:55:03 -0700 From: "David G. Lawrence" <dg@dglawrence.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Subject: Re: Is the TSC timecounter safe on SMP system? Message-ID: <20040814125503.GF40460@nexus.dglawrence.com> In-Reply-To: <20040814101328.GA95083@squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au> References: <16668.61707.474283.639200@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <200408131326.16412.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20040814101328.GA95083@squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au>
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> Can someone please elaborate on the acronym TSC ? > Please no comments about google etc been there done that and it wasn't useful. TSC is the Time Stamp Counter. It is a profiling counter internal to modern Pentium processors that counts core frequency clock ticks. -DG David G. Lawrence President Download Technologies, Inc. - http://www.downloadtech.com - (866) 399 8500 TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com - (888) 346 7175 The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Pave the road of life with opportunities.
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