Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] The New and Improved Logdev (now with kprobes!) | From | Daniel Walker <> | Date | Thu, 05 Oct 2006 12:39:20 -0700 |
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On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 11:49 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> That's part of the reason for the changes that I made to the clocksource > API . It makes it so instrumentation, with other things, can generically > read a low level cycle clock. Like on PPC you would read the > decrementer, and on x86 you would read the TSC . However, the > application has no idea what it's reading.
Meant to say PowerPC uses the timebase clocksource. Sorry I've got to many architectures swirling around.
Daniel
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