Re: Wrong bogomips after plugging in AC power

Mark Hahn (hahn@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca)
Fri, 29 Oct 1999 14:16:13 -0400 (EDT)


> Perhaps a patch is needed so APM (or the user) can inform the kernel
> to recompute bogomips, or to recompute them once a minute or so?

yuck! better to make __udelay to use rdtsc when available.
it doesn't appear on older ia32, but then again, they don't fiddle
the clock like this. most other modern processors have similar
clock counters.

regards, mark hahn.

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