From: "Lachlan Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:35:49 -0800

> I thought that a TSC read was fairly cheap.

The TSC is cheap, but on the vast majority of systems it
isn't usable as a stable time source, and we have to read
the ACPI timer instead.
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