On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 03:42:24PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Karl Denninger writes:
> : And on what hardware do you think you can obtain 10ns resolution RELIABLY
> : at the software level in the Unix environment and under FreeBSD?
> :
> : Answer: NONE!
>
> WRONG.
>
> : The actual usable resolution of a timing source is determined by the
> : maximum slop in ANY part of the complete system.
> :
> : I challenge you to get actual REPEATABLE 10ns results while a multi-tasking
> : anything is running on the recipient of that data.
>
> We have hardware timers that let us get into the pico second range on
> a regular basis.
>
> Warner
Yes, you have HARDWARE timers that do that.
So what?
I'm talking about TIME SERVERS on UNIX machines.
You know, ntpd and friends? Yes, that.
Now explain to me how stability of your timing source ON THOSE MACHINES
is MATERIALLY different to any process WHICH THAT DEVICE MAY INTERACT WITH
between 10ns and 1us, AS SEEN FROM THE UNIX MACHINE.
I'm simply not interested in NON-GERMANE devices to the discussion; we were
talking about FreeBSD on REAL computers, not specialty hardware for process
control or nuclear physics experiments.
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