[coyotos-dev] coyotos.sleep, sleepTill, the epoch

[Nigel Williams]

> On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 01:05:27 +0000, Sam Mason wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 12:15:46AM +0100, Valerio Bellizzomi wrote:
> >> The hardware clock on a PC uses a low cost time base oscillator. It is
> >> imprecise in any case.
>
> >I think the main reason it was done under Linux was for scheduler
> >improvements rather than increased timer/clock accuracy.

Am I right in thinking that recent scheduler designs are now using the
cycle count register on newer processors to track how long a process
or thread executes?

nigel.