Messages in this thread |  | | From | Christoph Rohland <> | Subject | Re: Error in x86 CPU capabilities starting with test5/6 | Date | 17 Nov 2000 14:21:03 +0100 |
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Hi Jeff,
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote: > IIRC, this came up a long time ago WRT Apache, which made a lot of > gettimeofday() calls. Someone (Linus?) proposed the solution of a > 'magic page' which holds information like gettimeofday() stuff, but > could be handled much more rapidly than a standard syscall.
Yes, I followed that thread closely and would love to see this as the implementation for gettimeofday. This would make rdtsc for applications superfluous.
Greetings Christoph
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