zeroing pages in the idle task?

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, David A. Gatwood wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Takashi Oe wrote:
> > > Since the only use of this number is for oohs and aahs, there's not a
> > > lot of motivation to try and work out if OF is wrong and work out the
> > > correct number.
> >
> > Could you possibly tell me how one might implement this?  That is: how one
> > would measure/calculate this.  On NuBus, there is no OF, so I'd like to
> > implement.
>
> Ask the guys at Newer Tech for their Clockometer sources.  I don't know if
> they'd be willing to open-source them, but it's worth a shot.  As I
> understand it, their program does just what you're looking for.

On the m68k, we have some code to guestimate the CPU clock based on the
BogoMIPS (see get_cpuinfo() in arch/m68k/kernel/setup.c). Since we didn't care
about the overhead incurred by interrupt processing, it's not that accurate
though (I get 24.8 MHz on my 25 MHz 68040).

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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