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Re: timecounter TSC on Core i7



On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:27:32AM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote:
> Would hpet be a better choice for timecounter?

Not really. It is an order of magnitude slower. The best approach would
be to port the TSC sync code to the lapic timer, which is known to be
fixed frequency and also phase coherent, I think.

Joerg


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