From: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] high precision timings
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 21:42:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP6exYLkin_LGZCDCGYcSLqTNHZOfPWc6f=S0LLDG0q_WEhdZA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ff871fe92aa6fd40e78b8e7609f78fd6@quintile.net>
The TSC has been badly abused by the chip makers over the last ten
years. It went through a period of time where it had poor accuracy. Be
sure to look at your hardware and make sure it's a later chip which
will give you reasonable TSC behavior.
ron
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-05 4:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-04 17:47 Steve Simon
2011-09-04 18:34 ` erik quanstrom
2011-09-05 4:42 ` ron minnich [this message]
2011-09-05 4:50 ` s s
2011-09-05 4:53 ` s s
2011-09-05 6:27 ` dexen deVries
[not found] ` <CAP6exYLkin_LGZCDCGYcSLqTNHZOfPWc6f=S0LLDG0q_WEhdZA@mail.gmail.c>
2011-09-05 4:48 ` erik quanstrom
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