TSC Timecounter and multi-core/SMP

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Apr 21 05:23:56 UTC 2008


In message <480C223F.2040303 at elischer.org>, Julian Elischer writes:

>> Probably because it's very very difficult to get right :)	
>
>and they've had over 20 years to think of something.

Well, basically they have thought, but they have talked to the
wrong OS people.

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