Of course not :)
> AFAIK, gettimeofday() internally uses rdtsc() on those processors.
Hmm, I just checked 2.0.36 as well as 2.2.0-pre source and both read from
the TSC for do_fast_gettimeoffset, which is the guts of do_gettimeofday.
> Aren't you trying to measure the precision of a clock with the same
> clock?
No wonder it was working so well :>
Anyone wanna fill me in on how well it works with a kernel compiled to
use do_slow_gettimeoffset?
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