From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Nov 19 23:51:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from smtp05.primenet.com (smtp05.primenet.com [206.165.6.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C6B037B479 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 23:51:45 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp05.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA28650; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 00:52:21 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr06.primenet.com(206.165.6.206) via SMTP by smtp05.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAj0ai63; Mon Nov 20 00:52:12 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr06.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA03260; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 00:51:33 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200011200751.AAA03260@usr06.primenet.com> Subject: Re: "Monotonic" counter/register call - commit candidate. To: eischen@vigrid.com (Daniel Eischen) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 07:51:32 +0000 (GMT) Cc: mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray), arch@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Daniel Eischen" at Nov 18, 2000 08:22:44 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I really hate "jiffie" and would prefer using just get_cyclecount > or even better get_counter. It would also be nice to know what > resolution the counter was, perhaps get_counter_res(). Isn't that obvious from the name of the function? A jiffy is 1/60th of a second, and has been at least since the early 6800 machines came out, if not before. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message