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Re: Timestamp Skew
From: Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:20:28 -0800
On Jan 15, 2010, at 3:04 PM, Gianluca Varenni wrote:
It's not documented, and depends on the version of Windows, the service pack, and the HAL type... Most of the times it's a non-compensated RDTSC, however.
If it's just RDTSC, wouldn't it have the same problems on "SpeedStep machines" as raw RDTSC? The description in the mail was
Possible values are a.. 0 (default) -> Timestamps generated through KeQueryPerformanceCounter, less reliable on SMP/HyperThreading machines, precision = some microseconds b.. 2 -> Timestamps generated through KeQuerySystemTime, more reliable on SMP/HyperThreading machines, precision = scheduling quantum (10/15 ms) c.. 3 -> Timestamps generated through the i386 instruction RDTSC, less reliable on SMP/HyperThreading/SpeedStep machines, precision = some microseconds
Also, should it say "machines where the clock rate is variable" or something such as that? I don't know whether Intel still calls it "SpeedStep", and AMD have their own names for it. ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-users mailing list <wireshark-users () wireshark org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-users Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-users mailto:wireshark-users-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe
Current thread:
- Re: Timestamp Skew, (continued)
- Re: Timestamp Skew Guy Harris (Jan 14)
- Re: Timestamp Skew Bill Meier (Jan 14)
- Re: Timestamp Skew Gianluca Varenni (Jan 14)
- Re: Timestamp Skew Lee Riemer (Jan 14)
- Re: Timestamp Skew Gianluca Varenni (Jan 14)
- Re: Timestamp Skew Lee Riemer (Jan 14)
- Re: Timestamp Skew Gianluca Varenni (Jan 14)
- Re: Timestamp Skew Tamás Varga (Jan 15)
- Re: Timestamp Skew Guy Harris (Jan 15)
- Re: Timestamp Skew Gianluca Varenni (Jan 15)
- Re: Timestamp Skew Guy Harris (Jan 15)
- Re: Timestamp Skew Gianluca Varenni (Jan 15)