Re: How is user space notified of CPU speed changes?

From: Alan Cox
Date: Fri Oct 22 2004 - 16:44:19 EST


On Gwe, 2004-10-22 at 20:40, Chris Friesen wrote:
> x86 really could use an on-die register that increments at 1GHz independent of
> clock speed and is synchronized across all CPUs in an SMP box.

HPET sort of is this but at chipset level

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