> 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
But that's the point! In the near future, CPU clocks will only be stable
to about 2 percent because the next cost-cutting 'comsumerish' thingy
will be to replace quartz crystals with ceramic resonators.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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