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Date:      Mon, 18 Oct 2004 21:50:34 +0100
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/random harvest.c 
Message-ID:  <200410182050.i9IKoY1x069132@grovel.grondar.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>  <200410181929.i9IJTDZH001503@repoman.freebsd.org> 

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>   Log:
>   Annotate that get_cyclecount() can be expensive on some platforms,
>   which juxtaposes nicely with the comment just above on how the
>   harvest function must be cheap.

Cool.

And I have a PHK-inspired improvement to the get_cyclecount() function that
should improve the !TSC case quite a bit.

Commit in a day or three.

M



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