Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Future time | Date | 11 Jul 1998 02:16:16 GMT |
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Followup to: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980711034638.18184A-100000@delta.ds2.pg.gda.pl> By author: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > Then, the SMP machines don't use these controllers at all unless the APIC > > is broken. > > But not all ia32 machines are SMP and these which are not have usually > the onchip APIC either absent or disabled. Unfortunately... >
Actually, the thing to use is the cycle counter if the CPU clock is anywhere near stable.
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