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| author | Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-01-10 10:48:39 +0000 |
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| committer | Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-01-10 10:48:39 +0000 |
| commit | 52f1d68ff8be42d0a1e71b599187d3f83908a37c (patch) | |
| tree | 352a60408beae0f65155605a8f827657b389915f /share/man/man9/get_cyclecount.9 | |
| parent | 2be6c09fd594f6f96edebb0f29eebd588831c0e3 (diff) | |
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mdoc(7) police: tidy up the markup.
This manpage should be repo-copied to get_cyclecount.9.
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svn path=/head/; revision=89193
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diff --git a/share/man/man9/get_cyclecount.9 b/share/man/man9/get_cyclecount.9 index 1b2966bddcf5..50c954b0f339 100644 --- a/share/man/man9/get_cyclecount.9 +++ b/share/man/man9/get_cyclecount.9 @@ -22,10 +22,10 @@ .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.\" $FreeBSD$ +.\" $FreeBSD$ .\" .Dd November 20, 2000 -.Dt GET_CYCLECOUNTER 9 +.Dt GET_CYCLECOUNT 9 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm get_cyclecount @@ -39,13 +39,13 @@ .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Fn get_cyclecount -functon uses a register +function uses a register available in most modern CPUs to return a value that is monotonically increasing inside each CPU. .Pp -In SMP systems, +On SMP systems, there will be a number of separate monotonic sequences, one for each CPU running. @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ selected from one of these sequences, dependent on which CPU was scheduled to service the request. .Pp -The speed and maximum value +The speed and the maximum value of each counter is CPU-dependent. Some CPUs |