Re: ACPI-fast default timecounter, but HPET 83% faster

2009-06-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
John Baldwin wrote: On Sunday 26 April 2009 10:27:42 pm Garrett Cooper wrote: I'm seeing similar results. [r...@orangebox /usr/home/gcooper]# dmesg | grep 'Timecounter "' Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 Timecounter "HP

Re: ACPI-fast default timecounter, but HPET 83% faster

2009-04-30 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:46:41 -0400 John Baldwin wrote: > On Sunday 26 April 2009 10:27:42 pm Garrett Cooper wrote: > > Why's the default ACPI-fast? For power-saving functionality or > > because of the `quality' factor? What is the criteria that > > determines the `quality' of a clock as what's b

Re: ACPI-fast default timecounter, but HPET 83% faster

2009-04-30 Thread John Baldwin
On Sunday 26 April 2009 10:27:42 pm Garrett Cooper wrote: > I'm seeing similar results. > > [r...@orangebox /usr/home/gcooper]# dmesg | grep 'Timecounter "' > Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 > Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 > Timecounter "HPET" frequen

Re: ACPI-fast default timecounter, but HPET 83% faster

2009-04-27 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 01:50:31AM +0200, Pieter de Goeje wrote: > While fiddling with the sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware, I found out > that on my system HPET is significantly faster than ACPI-fast. I did some extensive testing on a variety of AMD and Intel boards and never found a system where

Re: ACPI-fast default timecounter, but HPET 83% faster

2009-04-26 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Pieter de Goeje wrote: > Dear hackers, > > While fiddling with the sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware, I found out that on > my system HPET is significantly faster than ACPI-fast. Using the program > below I measured the number of clock_gettime() calls the system can