Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 11:28:24 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, chat@FreeBSD.org Cc: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>, mark@grondar.za, Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com> Subject: Re: new monotime() call for all architectures. Message-ID: <XFMail.001118112824.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <3A160633.CFAE57F8@softweyr.com>
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On 18-Nov-00 Wes Peters wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: >> >> On 17-Nov-00 Jonathan Lemon wrote: >> > On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 01:08:16PM -0700, Nate Williams wrote: >> >> > >> >> Ok, I just thought the "mono" in his function name is for >> >> > >> >> monotonic. >> >> > >> >> If >> >> > >> >> you are staying on one processor it will work, but if the >> >> > >> >> timestamps >> >> > >> >> have scheduling inbetween the timestamps and you land on a >> >> > >> >> different >> >> > >> >> processor it won't be monotonic anymore. >> >> > >> > >> >> > >> >It's close enough. :) >> >> > >> >> >> > >> If it isn't dealing properly with async PCC/TSC counters on SMP >> >> > >> machines >> >> > >> it shouldn't be called "monoanyting". >> >> > >> >> >> > >> I guess I totally object to the name now :-) >> >> > > >> >> > >OK, how about bogotime(9)? ;) >> >> > >> >> > It's not returning units of any known time. "bogocount()" maybe... >> >> >> >> How about 'slushycounter()'? >> > >> > falseticker()? (Okay, probably too NTP specfic) >> >> Let's just go back to CS 101 days and call it my_function(). > > Sorry, Mr. Baldwin, you just got a "D" in your assignment. Good thing I've already graduated then. :) > Since the function appears to return an increasing nonsensical counter, > "foo" seems somehow appropriate. Depends on what school you attended. 'qux' is another decent candidate. :-P -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.Baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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