Mark Hahn wrote:
>
> > Why would you want to use TSC in the user space? Coherent time and TSC
>
> for timing, of course, without the overhead of a syscall.
Where do you need this? And how will your user space run on platforms
without TSC?
>
> > are two different things. I think relying on TSC content in the user
> > space is like relying on content of any other register, we don't expect
> > eax to have any particular value ;-)
>
> uh, sure we do. eax DAMNED well better contain whatever I put in it last.
You can put whatever you want into TSC as well, that is not the point.
What do you expect if you didn't put anything?
Boris
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