svn commit: r49670 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Benjamin Kaduk
bjk at FreeBSD.org
Mon Nov 14 13:05:22 UTC 2016
Author: bjk
Date: Mon Nov 14 13:05:21 2016
New Revision: 49670
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/49670
Log:
Correct text about shared page for HPET registers
The shared page maps HPET registers; HPET does not do the mapping.
Reported by: kib
Pointy-hat to: bjk
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml Mon Nov 14 07:27:04 2016 (r49669)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml Mon Nov 14 13:05:21 2016 (r49670)
@@ -1421,7 +1421,7 @@
enhanced to allow syscall-less operation on machines that use
HPET hardwire for timecounters. The HPET algorithm coexists
with older RDTSC-based code, allowing dynamic switching of
- timecounters. HPET registers a page that is
+ timecounters. A page with HPET registers is
<tt>mmap(2)</tt>-ed readonly by libc into userland application
programs' address space as needed. Measurements demonstrated
modest improvements in <tt>gettimeofday(2)</tt> performance,
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