Xserver and Gettimeofday

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Wed Aug 29 06:03:11 PDT 2007


On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 11:15:33AM +0200, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
> depending on what is the gettimeofday() used for, we may switch to TSC (even
> if TSC is not reliable due to frequency scaling), it can be obviously done in
> case of timeouts. 

Even worse, TSC is not reliable in many SMP environments either.

Joerg



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