Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 09:11:40 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: TSC instead of ACPI: powerd doesn't work anymore (to be expected?) Message-ID: <87252.1130832700@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 01 Nov 2005 08:02:02 GMT." <20051101080018.R18382@fledge.watson.org>
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In message <20051101080018.R18382@fledge.watson.org>, Robert Watson writes: >One nice thing about the Linux TSC model, despite its limitations, is that >it provides a middle ground between incrementing the clock in ticks and >providing a more continuous measure of time, by allowing interpolation >between ticks. Which is also exactly what we do. The only real difference is that Linux trusts the TSC in cases where we don't. -- 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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