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Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 14:13:04 +0000 (GMT)
From: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>
To: Kotsovinos Vangelis <kotsovin@ics.forth.gr>
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Subject: Re: Microsecond accuracy
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On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> How about TSC? I know this has disadvantages such as:
> 
> a) not all machines have TSC

while we are on this subject, please let me emphasize that you should
_not_ be using cpuid instruction to detect the presence of TSC but should
parse the /proc/cpuinfo file. There are many valid reasons why Linux's
idea of TSC presence may not be the same as hardware's (cpuid
instruction) idea.

Regards,
Tigran

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