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    SubjectRe: Intel P6 vs P7 system call performance
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    On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 19:26, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
    > >> It's not as good as a pure user-mode solution using tsc could be, but
    > You can't use the TSC to do gettimeofday on boxes where they aren't
    > syncronised anyway though. That's nothing to do with vsyscalls, you just
    > need a different time source (eg the legacy stuff or HPET/cyclone).

    Ditto all the laptops and the like. With code provided by the kernel we
    can cheat however. If we know the fastest the CPU can go (ie full speed
    on spudstop/powernow etc) we can tell the tsc value at which we have to
    query the kernel to get time to any given accuracy, so allowing limited
    caching

    Ditto by knowing the worst case drift on summit

    Alan

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