From: "Joseph P. Garcia" <jpgarcia@execpc•com>
To: Steve Poole <sp@is2-isnot•com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists•linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Timing Facilities
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 00:10:16 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010222001016.316ac1a3.jpgarcia@execpc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20010221232125.00c97100@mail.brokersys.com>
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001 23:24:57 -0600, Steve Poole <sp@is2-isnot•com> wrote:
>
> I have written a small assembly fragment to read the TB register that runs
> under Linux (YDL/BLL). What is the definition of a "tick" or "jiffie" under
> Linux. When some code is run under MacOS (400MHz G4) the results are
> *faster* (the numbers returned are lower) than when I run on a 500MHz G4. I
> appreciate any input.
I beleive there are 1*HZ jiffies in one second. Used in the kernel's timer_list struct (to name one use), which basically has the kernel run a function at a specific time. ex, setting the 'expires' value to (jiffies + HZ) will cause it to run one second from now.
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Joseph P. Garcia
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2001-02-22 5:24 Timing Facilities Steve Poole
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2001-02-22 8:59 Iain Sandoe
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