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    SubjectRe: How is user space notified of CPU speed changes?
    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.

    Chris
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