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SubjectRe: PATCH: POSIX 1003.1b timer minor fixes
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Harald Koenig wrote:

> On Jul 29, Robert H. de Vries wrote:
>
> > This little program tells you how many cycles went by between two reads of
> > the TSC.
> >
> > #include <stdio.h>
> > #include <asm/msr.h>
> >
> > int main(void)
> > {
> > long long p1, p2, p3, p4;
> >
> > rdtscll(p1);
> > rdtscll(p2);
> > rdtscll(p3);
> > rdtscll(p4);
> >
> > printf("p1: %Ld\n", p1);
> > printf("p2: %Ld [%Ld]\n", p2, p2-p1);
> > printf("p3: %Ld [%Ld]\n", p3, p3-p2);
> > printf("p4: %Ld [%Ld]\n", p4, p4-p3);
> >
> > return 0;
> > }
> >
> > The output on my Pentium II 450 MHz is:
> >
> > p1: 61897741731009
> > p2: 61897741731042 [33]
> > p3: 61897741731074 [32]
> > p4: 61897741731107 [33]
>
> for my AMD K6/2-400 it's different (and depends on optimisation)
>
> # cc tsc.c ; ./a.out
> p1: 303753706861528
> p2: 303753706861537 [9]
> p3: 303753706861563 [26]
> p4: 303753706861572 [9]
>
> # cc -O tsc.c ; ./a.out
> p1: 303755356275726
> p2: 303755356275758 [32]
> p3: 303755356275767 [9]
> p4: 303755356275776 [9]
>
> different optimisation levels all give the same results, so does using
> gcc-2.7.2.3 vs. egcs-2.91.66.

It seems that the user space solution is at least ten times faster than
the kernel space version.
The AMD looks even faster so I vote for a user space implementation of
CLOCK_LINUX_COUNTER.
I have the impression that most modern processors offer some form of
counter. So we could offer it for most Linux platforms.

Robert

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