Re: do_gettimeofday vs. rdtsc in the scheduler

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 08:40:22AM +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> The point here is: You don't need a synchronized bus clock. You don't
> need synchronized CPU clocks. You need a synchronized system-wide clock
> that doesn't drive any bus or CPU, just a simple counter in every CPU
> that you can read from inside the CPU. You can pull that pretty far and

Exactly.

Andrea