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Date:      Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:05:20 -0700
From:      Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org>, arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: where to put support for timestamping kernel events ?
Message-ID:  <20011016100520.E63982@iguana.aciri.org>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.011016092707.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20011014201400.A49458@iguana.aciri.org> <XFMail.011016092707.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 09:27:07AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> On 15-Oct-01 Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > [Apparently this kind of question is better asked on -arch,
> > so sorry for the repost, here it goes again... and in the meantime
> > i have had some time to elaborate on names and locations.]
> 
> Note that KTR has somewhat similar support for this, though it currently

what is KTR ? any pointers ? (sorry but i am not familiar
with -current, where this seems to be...)

> doesn't use the TSC.  It could be changed to use cpu_cyclecount() (which is a
> MI interface which uses the TSC when it can) perhaps which might help. 
> Unfortunately, the KTR buffr isn't exported via sysctl(8) at the moment.

well, the sysctl export is really trivial to do.

	cheers
	luigi

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