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Paul Mackerras wrote:the timebase for converting ppc timestamp into second are avaible in /proc/cpuinfo.
Do we use rdtsc on x86 machines? If not rdtsc, what do we use?
Yes, we do, but at least it means that each unit is one cycle of t he CPU which then can be translated into seconds. From what I know this isn't the case with mftb, where different implementations increment the counter differently.
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