* [9fans] FYI: why the TSC is utterly useless
@ 2008-01-16 23:52 ron minnich
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From: ron minnich @ 2008-01-16 23:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
I just found this nice summary and thought some of you might enjoy it ...
http://ltt.polymtl.ca/svn/ltt/branches/poly/doc/developer/tsc.txt
Essentially, it's why the time stamp counter does not actually count
time on newer CPUs, making it somewhat less than useful. It's got
links for the amd info.
ron
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