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Date:      Fri, 24 Jul 2015 17:58:36 +0200
From:      deco33000@yandex.com
Cc:        freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: struct timehands: th_generation field
Message-ID:  <1568531437753516@web15h.yandex.ru>
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OK.

I read the document and understood it I guess.
Very interesting, and well engineered.

On x86/i386/amd64, could not all this be replaced by a simple call to apic timer ?
We would get the timestamp, we can even store it, make calculation on top of it.

My jugement may miss something important though. That is why I ask :)


--š
Jog



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