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Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 01:34:53 +0100
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Sushil Agarwal <sushil@veritas.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: rdtsc to mili secs?
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On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 12:28:00AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> or running SMP with non matched CPU clocks.

In this last case I guess he will have more problems than not being able to
convert from cpu-clock to usec 8). Scheduler and gettimeofday will do the wrong
thing in that case (scheduler both for bougs avg_slice and fairness).

Andrea
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