TSC instead of ACPI: powerd doesn't work anymore (to be expected?)

[David Xu]

Robert Watson wrote:
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> It has been suggested that the former can operate quite well with 
> significantly reduced quality.  It has alos been suggested that most 
> applications could operate fine with somewhat reduced quality, but that 
> the API definitions don't say anything about how to specify application 
> quality requirements vs performance requirements for time measurement.

Can we change gettimeofday and clock_gettime to lower resolution now?
I think 1000hz/s is enough for most applications, since a thread can
never sleep shorter than a tick for years. We can introduce
hrtime_t clock_gethrtime(clockid_t clock) to get hi-resolution time
as the one seen in RTLinux, or gethrtime() as seen in Solaris (Daniel
Eischen said?)

David Xu