Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 18:41:29 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Alain Thivillon <Alain.Thivillon@hsc.fr>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -CURRENT clock deviation Message-ID: <200010060141.e961fTh03854@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 05 Oct 2000 18:27:47 PDT." <XFMail.001005182747.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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> On 04-Oct-00 Alain Thivillon wrote:
> >
> > I have noticed that -CURRENT (build last week) is subject to a very high
> > clock deviation:
> > I run -CURRENT on a laptop, it seems that last commit in idle loop (the
> > one replacing loop by HLT and lowering temperature) broke the clock.
>
> Hmm, this shouldn't really break it.
I'm also a little surprised about that, but the whole "idle thread"
concept is up for some major revision soon anyway, with APCI promising to
substantially change the way we view "idleness" in a lot of cases.
--
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rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want
to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt]
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