Re: rdtsc to mili secs?

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Date: Tue Nov 07 2000 - 01:10:41 EST

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Followup to: <3A078C65.B3C146EC@mira.net>
By author: Antony Suter <antony@mira.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> This issue, and all related issues, need to be taken care of for all
> speed changing CPUs from Intel, AMD and Transmeta. Is the answer of
> "howto write userland programs correctly with a speed changing cpu"
> in a FAQ somewhere?
>

At least in case of Transmeta, RDTSC will return wall time.

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