Messages in this thread |  | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: rdtsc to mili secs? | Date | 18 Nov 2000 15:48:06 -0800 |
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Followup to: <20001118211349.B382@bug.ucw.cz> By author: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> > Actually, on machines where RDTSC works correctly, you'd like to use > > that to detect a lost timer interrupt. > > > > It's tough, it really is :( > > Well, my patch did not do that but you probably want lost timer > interrupt detection so that you avoid false alarms. > > But that means you can no longer detect speed change after 10msec: > > going from 150MHz to 300MHz is very similar to one lost timer > interrupt. >
That's the point.
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