Re: do_gettimeofday vs. rdtsc in the scheduler

David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Tue, 17 Sep 2002 16:46:49 -0700 (PDT)


From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 01:52:09 +0200

On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 04:32:46PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> I know full well it isn't currently :-)

Sorry, it's wrong. The x86 architecture has several such registers

Not in the processor, and not architectually specified.

All of the things you list are in the scope of things outside
the cpu.
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