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Date:      Fri, 31 Mar 2000 10:50:12 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SMP buildworld times / performance tests 
Message-ID:  <1799.954492612@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 30 Mar 2000 09:15:54 -0800." <200003301715.JAA73702@apollo.backplane.com> 

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In message <200003301715.JAA73702@apollo.backplane.com>, Matthew Dillon writes:

>    The general problem with the timecounter is that not only is the hardware
>    indeterminant, but the timecounter structure itself is *NOT* MP safe,
>    at least not by my read of it.

Well, read again then :-)

I've had a paper in the works about timecounters for over a year
now, I should really sit down and finish it.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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