Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 21:22:20 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za>, mark@grondar.za, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new monotime() call for all architectures. Message-ID: <26172.974492540@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 17 Nov 2000 13:55:24 CST." <20001117135523.B20231@futuresouth.com>
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In message <20001117135523.B20231@futuresouth.com>, "Matthew D. Fuller" writes: >On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 08:53:09PM +0100, a little birdie told me >that Poul-Henning Kamp remarked >> >> >> 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... -- 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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