svn commit: r222866 - head/sys/x86/x86
John Baldwin
jhb at freebsd.org
Tue Jun 21 13:31:43 UTC 2011
On Monday, June 20, 2011 7:41:00 pm Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> My questions to you:
>
> a) Why do we care TSC timecounter when it is not invariant where we
> *know* it is unusable and set to negative quality?
What if the user knows they will not enable CPU throttling so for them the TSC
is safe? In that case, TSC is a more efficient timecounter and if the user
constrains the system to make the TSC safe we should let them use it.
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John Baldwin
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