Re: How is user space notified of CPU speed changes?

[Lee Revell]

On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 13:40 -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
> Lee Revell wrote:
> 
> > Seems like you are implying that any userspace app that needs to know
> > the CPU speed is broken.  Is this correct?
> 
> No, we're saying that Intel's tsc implementation is broken.  <grin>
> 
> 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.

Like this? (posted to jackit-devel):

On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 18:20 -0500, Jack O'Quin wrote: 

> On PowerPC, JACK uses the lower half of the 64-bit Timebase register,
> which is accessible from user mode.  This is better then the i386
> cycle counter, I believe.  See: `config/cpu/powerpc/cycles.h', the
> comment about only using it for SMP is bogus.  We use this for both
> MacOS X and Linux.

-- 
Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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