svn commit: r274739 - head/sys/mips/conf

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Tue Nov 25 08:46:43 UTC 2014


"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
> Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> writes:
> > What's the minimum specs required for get_cyclecount()?
> In randomness context:  That there exists a complex and unpredictable
> cache-hierarchy which makes the exact number of cycles for any one
> instruction pseudo-random.

No.  It just needs to be monotonic across cores and have reasonably high
resolution.

DES
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