Re: SMP gettimeofday patch

From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Fri Apr 28 2000 - 18:12:12 EST

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On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Larry Woodman wrote:

>[..] makes each CPU
>record its process cycle
>counter [..]

Isn't possible to synchronize the tsc of the different cpus as we do on
IA32? This also would allow to use the get_cycles() from userspace (we do
this often for benchmarking).

Andrea

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