[coyotos-dev] sleep capability

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

Yes:

	uint64_t counter;	// on a shared page
	for(;;)
		counter++;

Other thread reads counter. Every bit as good as rdtsc.
	
On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 14:01 +0100, Pierre THIERRY wrote:
> Scribit Jonathan S. Shapiro dies 22/01/2007 hora 10:19:
> > 2. Running a second thread on a concurrent CPU is good enough to get a
> > very high accuracy clock.
> 
> Do you have at hand some references about the methods used to get this
> accuracy? Is it really doable without any use of a CPU cycle or time
> counter?
> 
> Curiously,
> Pierre
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