Re: PROBLEM: no cpu MHz in /proc/cpuinfo on 2.6.25.4-rt6

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>]

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:14:50 -0400
"linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <linux-os@analogic.com> wrote:

> 
> I use CPU frequency to scale the output of rdtsc when timing
> routines being optimized.

Ok this is broken in various really bad ways.

1) CPU frequency is very fluctuating, it changes in principle every
millisecond or more
2) the rdtsc "frequency" is conceptually unrelated to cpu frequency. In
fact, you'll be hard-pressed to buy a system today where this
relationship works....


> If CPU frequency goes away, I'll
> have to add calibration routines to a lot of code. I don't
> think one should just dispose of something that has been
> useful for many years because they don't understand its
> utility.

clearly you don't understand it either ;-)

I'm not arguing for removing it, at all. I'm just arguing that any user
of it (being human or program) has some problems in how they use the
data.



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