Re: How is user space notified of CPU speed changes?
From: Chris Friesen
Date: Fri Oct 22 2004 - 17:01:30 EST
Alan Cox wrote:
On Gwe, 2004-10-22 at 20:40, Chris Friesen wrote:
x86 really could use an on-die register that increments at 1GHz independent of
clock speed and is synchronized across all CPUs in an SMP box.
HPET sort of is this but at chipset level
Right. So you still have to go across the cpu bus to get it.
Chris
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