On 6 Aug 2002, Marcus Sundberg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> just wondering whether my assumption that, assuming an IA32 machine
> with working TSC, using PSCHED_CLOCK_SOURCE == PSCHED_CPU will give
> significantly better accuracy and at least as good performance as
> using PSCHED_CLOCK_SOURCE == PSCHED_JIFFIES?
>
> //Marcus
Yes Marcus. Although "significantly" will really depend on your CPU and
other stuff running on the machine I guess. The only thing I am clueless
about is IA32 architecture. This works for me on x86 so if IA32 works
in a similar way, then you should see improvements.
ciao,
Amit
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