Re: a faster way to gettimeofday? rdtsc strangeness

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
7 Mar 2002 10:32:36 -0800

Followup to: <1015515815.4373.61.camel@pc-16.office.scali.no>
By author: Terje Eggestad <terje.eggestad@scali.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Can /proc/cpuinfo really be trusted in figuring out how long a cycle is?
>

It uses RDTSC, so yes.

-hpa

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