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Subject: Re: rdtsc to mili secs?
To: andrea@suse.de (Andrea Arcangeli)
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 00:46:12 +0000 (GMT)
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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).

2.2 handles this case correctly. Ok well at least without bad things happening.

Alan

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