Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 21:33:03 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DragonflyBSD kernel clock improvements Message-ID: <45236.1074976383@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 24 Jan 2004 12:31:13 PST." <200401242031.i0OKVD8A037265@apollo.backplane.com>
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In message <200401242031.i0OKVD8A037265@apollo.backplane.com>, Matthew Dillon writes: >:Unless you have replaced timecounters this is not true. Timecounters >:are insensitive to how your Hz ticks, as long as it does it often >:enough. (You should probably pull in the code from -current though, >:the 4.x code has some marginal issues). > > The problem with the timecounters is that they create incredible > inconsistencies depending on which counter you use, various pieces of > hardware, your hz frequency, and the phase of the moon. The timecounter > code is ridiculously complex and unnecessary junk and I will be ripping > it all out soon. Enjoy. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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