In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wilko Bulte writes: >On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 07:23:48PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Kevin Oberman" writes: >> >> >> kern.timecounter.hardware=TSC >> > >> >Can someone explain why TSC is preferred to i8254 (or why not)? >> >> Cheaper access & better resolution. > >Which brings me to the question if there is a comprehensive story >on timekeeping in FreeBSD in the docs? Like the EuroBSDcon2002 >one, but with answers to questions like the one above added.
The paper I wrote for EuroBSDCon was as comprehensive as I had time to make it. I am sure I could bore people out of their collective wits talking about my timekeeping experiments, and I have no idea what things people are really interested in, so my best suggestion is for people to ask question, and then collect the answers into a FAQ somewhere in the doc section. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
