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

ACPI-fast default timecounter, but HPET 83% faster

2009-04-26 Thread Pieter de Goeje
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 execute per second. I ran the program 10 times for each config