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Date:      Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:10:25 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        "Jung-uk Kim" <jkim@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r222866 - head/sys/x86/x86
Message-ID:  <201106210910.25697.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <201106201941.03393.jkim@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201106081938.p58JcWuB044252@svn.freebsd.org> <20110618210815.W889@besplex.bde.org> <201106201941.03393.jkim@FreeBSD.org>

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On Monday, June 20, 2011 7:41:00 pm Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> My questions to you:
> 
> a) Why do we care TSC timecounter when it is not invariant where we 
> *know* it is unusable and set to negative quality?

What if the user knows they will not enable CPU throttling so for them the TSC 
is safe?  In that case, TSC is a more efficient timecounter and if the user
constrains the system to make the TSC safe we should let them use it.

-- 
John Baldwin



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