Re: bogo-bogomips

From: Philipp Rumpf (prumpf@puffin.external.hp.com)
Date: Sun Mar 19 2000 - 14:19:51 EST


> Actually it won't correct for current laptop CPUs that vary the clock
> speed -- the tsc speed also varies.

Oh ? To the best of my knowledge, current laptop CPUs don't vary the
clock speed, but the duty cycle of the CPU.

> It will probably correct for future laptop CPUs though, such as (no
> surprise) the Transmeta one.

I think no CPUs' TSC rate actually changes, so using rdtsc if we have
a working TSC should be fine.

        Philipp Rumpf

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