On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 09:36:45PM -0500, Jeff Johnson wrote:
And it also shouldn't surprise that there are indeed instructions
that have
crept into various packages that preven execution on i386, rdtsc in rpm (so I
don't have to stare at gettimeofday in straces) comes to mind.
Hopefully you're checking the cpuid feature flags to make sure 'tsc'
is there first, and falling back to get_timeofday if not present ?
If not, this is horribly broken on..
- lots of 586's.
Cyrix, and early AMDs iirc didn't have TSC.
- Any CPU with errata making TSC unusable.
Winchip C6 was one such beast. (586), there may be
others too.
- Some NUMA boxes have big problems keeping TSCs
in sync, and fall back to alternative timing sources.
Come to think of it, why is rpm needing to do this anyway ?
Dave