accessing hardware isn't free. Locking also isn't free. That's why there's this mechanism.
-adrian On 24 July 2015 at 08:58, <deco33...@yandex.com> wrote: > > OK. > > I read the document and understood it I guess. > Very interesting, and well engineered. > > On x86/i386/amd64, could not all this be replaced by a simple call to apic > timer ? > We would get the timestamp, we can even store it, make calculation on top of > it. > > My jugement may miss something important though. That is why I ask :) > > > -- > Jog > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
