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From: Ulrich =?utf-8?B?U3DDtnJsZWlu?= <uqs@freebsd.org>
To: Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net>
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Cc: Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: porting cputick2usec() to userland
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On Wed, 01.09.2010 at 16:23:43 -0700, Xin LI wrote:
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> On 2010/09/01 16:03, Alexander Best wrote:
> > hi there,
> > 
> > there was a thread some time ago related to porting cputick2usec() to
> > userland [1].
> > 
> > however it seems the idea got lost at some point. i remember uqs working on an
> > implementation, but can't remember the details.
> > 
> > a few people including uqs and jhb liked the idea. any comments on that?
> 
> I think uqs@ actually have a patch but can't seem to access his git
> repository anymore for some reason :-/

You can see the diff at
https://www.spoerlein.net/cgit/cgit.cgi/freebsd.work/commit/?h=warns&id=c3b4cf79a8f39ad965d023718073a006cc15f340

(also note the parent commit)

I didn't have time to test and finish the change though, if someone
wants to test/finish/commit this, please go ahead. It might take me
still a while to get to it.

Regards,
Uli