Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 18 Sep 2002 02:05:35 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: do_gettimeofday vs. rdtsc in the scheduler |
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On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 04:51:31PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> > Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 01:58:38 +0200 > > The local APIC timer is specified in the Intel Manual volume 3 for example. > It's an optional feature (CPUID), but pretty much everyone has it. > > It is internal or external to the processor? Ie. can it be in the > southbridge or something? If yes, then I still hold my point.
Local Apic is in the cpu.
-Andi
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