Re: [GSoc] Timeconter Performance Improvements

2011-03-26 Thread Jing Huang
Hi, Thanks for you all sincerely. Under your guidance, I read the specification of TSC in Intel Manual and learned the hardware feature of TSC: Processor families increment the time-stamp counter differently: • For Pentium M processors (family [06H], models [09H, 0DH]); for Pentium 4

Timecounter Project (GSoc2011)

2011-03-24 Thread Jing Huang
Hi Everyone, I am a student of Peking University in China. I am interest in the FreeBSD project of Timecounter Performance Improvements. I am familiar with Linux kernel and virtualization systems, like KVM and Xen. I have maintained the Linux Server for my College for last

[GSoc] Timeconter Performance Improvements

2011-03-24 Thread Jing Huang
Hi, Thanks for your replay. That is just my self-introduction:) I want to borrow the shared memory idea from KVM, I am not want to port a whole KVM:) But for this project, there are some basic problems. As I know, tsc counter is CPU specific. If the process running on a multi-core