Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757537AbWK0JPy (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Nov 2006 04:15:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757529AbWK0JPy (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Nov 2006 04:15:54 -0500 Received: from 70-91-206-233-BusName-SFBA.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([70.91.206.233]:1161 "EHLO saville.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757537AbWK0JPy (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Nov 2006 04:15:54 -0500 Message-ID: <456AACC9.10206@saville.com> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 01:15:53 -0800 From: Wink Saville User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arjan van de Ven CC: Robert Hancock , linux-kernel Subject: Re: [patch] x86: unify/rewrite SMP TSC sync code References: <4569404E.20402@shaw.ca> <45694D6F.60100@saville.com> <1164529484.3147.68.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <4569EF9D.7010802@saville.com> <1164613914.3276.10.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> In-Reply-To: <1164613914.3276.10.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 646 Lines: 18 Arjan van de Ven wrote: > just to make sure, you do realize that when you write "ticks" that rdtsc > doesn't measure cpu clock ticks or cpu cycles anymore, right? (At least > not on your machine) > Yes, that's why I wrote ticks and not cycles. At this point I'm not sure how to convert ticks to time on my machine, something else to learn:) Hopefully the HPET will resolve all of the issues. Wink - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/