Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 14:50:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> Subject: Re: 64 bit times revisited.. Message-ID: <200110262150.f9QLoMB38937@apollo.backplane.com> References: <XFMail.011026143448.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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: The best kernel-internal time representnation is ticks, with a simple
: baseline cache mechanism to convert it to other formats (e.g. as
: required by NFS, UFS, userland, etc...). Nothing beats ticks...
: a binary fixed point format doesn't even come *close* to being better
: then straight ticks.
:
-Matt
Before this gets misinterpreted, the 'ticks' I am talking about is
not the kernel timer interrupt ticks... it's the high resolution cpu
or 825x ticks we get. e.g. frequency dependant on the timer we use.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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