Re: svn commit: r237434 - in head/lib/libc: amd64/sys gen i386/sys

On 22 Jun 2012, at 08:34, Marius Strobl wrote:

> I don't know much about x86 CPUs but is my understanding correct
> that TSCs are not synchronized in any way across CPUs, i.e.
> reading it on different CPUs may result in time going backwards
> etc., which is okay for this application though?

As long as the initial value is set on every context switch, it only =
matters that the TSC is monotonic and increments at an approximately =
constant rate.  It is also possible to set the TSC value, but that's =
less useful in this context.

The one thing to be careful about is the fact that certain power saving =
states will affect the speed at which the TSC increments, and so it is =
important to update the ticks-per-second value whenever a core goes into =
a low power state.

This is more or less the same approach used by Xen, so most of the =
issues have been ironed out: Oracle complained to CPU vendors about a =
few corner cases and, because Oracle customers tend to buy a lot of =
expensive Xeon and Opteron chips, they were fixed quite promptly. =20

David

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