On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Luis Useche <useche@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I guess I don't know much about hardware to at least have some direction.
> From what I have read, it seems like timers implemented with the hpet
device
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> could give me the granularity I am looking for. If I understand correctly,
> the getitimer function in Linux uses hpet.
>
> The problem of using busy loop is that the CPU should be free for the
> benchmark I want to run.

I still can't figure out what you're trying to do or, more
importantly, what problem you're going to this effort to try to solve.
 Good luck!


Philip Guenther