What is the time between 2 mi_switches in freebsd.

Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmodai at in-nomine.org
Wed Oct 8 17:49:59 UTC 2008


-On [20081008 19:15], ushasri tummala (tummala.ushasri at gmail.com) wrote:
>I just want to know how its(time between 2 mi_switch()) calculated and in
>which variable is it stored in the code.(FreeBSD 5.2 release)
>This is not addressed in text book.

What Dag-Erling meant to say, and if I recall correctly, a switch() is
highly dependent on your hardware. So the time taken for a specific machine
can be vastly different from another machine.

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