Group: fa.freebsd.current




Subject: PATCH - update TSC freq when cpufreq changes it
From: Poul-Henning Kamp
Date: 2/28/2007 8:44:44 AM
In message <45E4ADCD.4090909@root.org>, Nate Lawson writes: >Attached is a patch that uses eventhandlers to update the TSC freq. Question: are we at a point where the TSC-frequency reported by ACPI is more precise than our own ad-hoc calibrations ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"

Subject: PATCH - update TSC freq when cpufreq changes it
From: Poul-Henning Kamp
Date: 2/28/2007 8:25:37 PM
In message <45E5D760.4030409@root.org>, Nate Lawson writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >It's a valid question, but mostly irrelevant. Not at all. It may be a lot cheaper for us to just use the value from the ACPI than to calibrate. Only in the increasingly rare case where TSC is used for timecounter AND the system isn't using NTP is the precise frequency really interesting. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"