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Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 18:56:12 -0800
From: Wink Saville <wink@...ille.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC: Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [patch] x86: unify/rewrite SMP TSC sync code
Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de> wrote:
>
> a new CPU is added. If the TSC isnt sync on SMP then it quickly gets
> pretty messy, and we should rather take a look at /why/ these apps are
> using RDTSC.
>
> Ingo
> -
I use RDTSC in get a cheap method of measuring time. What other choices are
there for a low overhead high frequency time source?
By low overhead a kernel call is way to expensive, I want to minimally impact
the code and have many of these calls through out the code. One of the
ways I use it is to instrument multi-threaded applications and then use
the TSC to compare when actions occur between threads. i.e. I use it as a
time stamp counter and neither precision or accuracy is too important.
On the other hand the more precise and accurate the better:)
Cheers,
Wink Saville
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