On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How about TSC? I know this has disadvantages such as:
>
> a) not all machines have TSC
while we are on this subject, please let me emphasize that you should
_not_ be using cpuid instruction to detect the presence of TSC but should
parse the /proc/cpuinfo file. There are many valid reasons why Linux's
idea of TSC presence may not be the same as hardware's (cpuid
instruction) idea.
Regards,
Tigran
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