weird fxp / timecounter interaction in top-of-tree

Dag-ErlingSmørgrav des at ofug.org
Sun Apr 6 11:40:27 PDT 2003


"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
> > and tc_init() to use the *first* timecounter it runs across (on i386,
> > this is generally the i8254), leaving the admin to pick another one if
> > the default does not suit her.  See the attached patch.
> This is wrong.  Please do not commit it.

OK.  Any suggestion as to how we could rank timecounters so we can
switch to a better one when it becomes available?  Is this something
we can determine statically (with a compiled-in preference list), or
do we have to determine it at run time?

DES
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