Re: Future time

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
11 Jul 1998 02:16:16 GMT

Followup to: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980711034638.18184A-100000@delta.ds2.pg.gda.pl>
By author: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> > Then, the SMP machines don't use these controllers at all unless the APIC
> > is broken.
>
> But not all ia32 machines are SMP and these which are not have usually
> the onchip APIC either absent or disabled. Unfortunately...
>

Actually, the thing to use is the cycle counter if the CPU clock is
anywhere near stable.

-hpa

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