>> It's not as good as a pure user-mode solution using tsc could be, but
>> we've seen the kinds of complexities that has with multi-CPU systems, and
>> they are so painful that I suspect the sysenter approach is a lot more
>> palatable even if it doesn't allow for the absolute best theoretical
>> numbers.
>
> The complexity only applies to nonsynchronized TSCs though, I would
> assume. I believe x86-64 uses a vsyscall using the TSC when it can
> provide synchronized TSCs, and if it can't it puts a normal system call
> inside the vsyscall in question.
You can't use the TSC to do gettimeofday on boxes where they aren't
syncronised anyway though. That's nothing to do with vsyscalls, you just
need a different time source (eg the legacy stuff or HPET/cyclone).
M.
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