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Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] option -no-tsc for i386 with speedstep


From: Jonas Maebe
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] option -no-tsc for i386 with speedstep
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 22:24:45 +0200


On 25 Apr 2005, at 22:17, Massimo Dal Zotto wrote:

In the meantime until we find a better solution could you give us some
explanation on why using a microseconds clock from gettimeofday instead
of rdtsc the guest os clock runs always 20% slower?

Because a system call (which gettimeofday is) is very slow (two context switches).


Jonas





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