On Jan 8 2007 00:02, dean gaudet wrote: >On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> On Jan 4 2007 17:48, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> > >> >[i386] All Transmeta CPUs have constant TSCs >> >All Transmeta CPUs ever produced have constant-rate TSCs. >> >> A TSC is ticking according to the CPU frequency, is not it? > >transmeta decided years before intel and amd that a constant rate tsc >(unaffected by P-state) was the only sane choice. on transmeta cpus the >tsc increments at the maximum cpu frequency no matter what the P-state >(and no matter what longrun is doing behind the kernel's back). > >mind you, many people thought this was a crazy choice at the time... > Well it defeats the purpose of TSC. I mean, they could have kept the "TSC" and instead added a second TSC ticker, constant_tsc.
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