Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 16:58:55 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> To: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Monotonic" counter/register call - commit candidate. Message-ID: <20001118165855.A409@freebie.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1001118081414.28330A-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com>; from eischen@vigrid.com on Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 08:22:44AM -0500 References: <200011181200.eAIC00J12131@gratis.grondar.za> <Pine.SUN.3.91.1001118081414.28330A-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
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On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 08:22:44AM -0500, Daniel Eischen wrote: > On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Mark Murray wrote: > > Hi > > > > Many thanks to those of you gave me all the constructive suggestions! > > > > Here is the commit candidate, taking into account as many of the > > reasonable ones as I could. > > > > WARNING! This is untested on Alpha and IA64. > > > > I considered renaming the function to marks(9), as I kinda liked > > that name, but on reflection, it seems way too arrogant, so > > Mike Smith's "get_jiffiecounter" won. > > I really hate "jiffie" and would prefer using just get_cyclecount > or even better get_counter. It would also be nice to know what get_counter != meaningful naming. IMO it can mean about anything. -- Wilko Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands wilko@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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