Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:40:44 -0600 | From | Chris Friesen <> | Subject | Re: How is user space notified of CPU speed changes? |
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Lee Revell wrote:
> Seems like you are implying that any userspace app that needs to know > the CPU speed is broken. Is this correct?
No, we're saying that Intel's tsc implementation is broken. <grin>
x86 really could use an on-die register that increments at 1GHz independent of clock speed and is synchronized across all CPUs in an SMP box.
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