Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 15:26:52 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>, Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>, arch@freebsd.org, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New hw.cpuhz sysctl as per PR i386/27627 Message-ID: <200107062226.f66MQra02267@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 06 Jul 2001 15:09:53 PDT." <3B463731.2090001@isi.edu>
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> Mike Smith wrote:
>
> > CPU speeds aren't constants; this is probably not the right place to put
> > it. It also assumes there's only one CPU, which isn't acceptable.
>
> Being the author of the original patch, I agree that its a hack - but
> it's better than nothing :-) Plus, it doesn't necessarily assume only
> one CPU - it does assume they all have the same fixed speed though.
It doesn't seem to serve much useful purpose; the information is already
available to the user in the boot-time message buffer, and it's not
useful as a number to a running process.
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