Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | 30 May 2005 18:40:03 +0200 | | Date | Mon, 30 May 2005 18:40:03 +0200 | | From | Andi Kleen <> | | Subject | Re: spinaphore conceptual draft |
| |
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 08:52:13AM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote: > Andi Kleen wrote: > > >On many architectures (including popular ones like AMD x86-64) > >there is no reliable fast monotonic (1) count unfortunately > > What about rdtsc?
It fails the reliable and monotonic test on AMD; on Intel EM64T machines it fails the fast test (although the alternatives are even slower) and also the first ones one a few bigger ones.
-Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
|  |