Subject: Re: questions about port and timer functions
From: [email-masked] (Rolf Welde Skeie)

20 Jan 1998 13:52:45 -0800
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To: "Patrick J. Fay" <[email-masked]>
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Patrick J. Fay wrote:
> The routine below will time to the clock tick level (at least on
> a pentium pro). Note that you have to put in the clock frequency.

A sidenote: on a SMP you can get corrupt values as the clock is
associated with the *current* cpu you are running on. You have
to be sure that you always use the same cpu...
Any takers on a MT-safe implementation?
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