[LITMUS^RT] Question about TSC

[Björn Brandenburg]

On Jan 18, 2012, at 8:45 PM, Mac Mollison wrote:

> In case it's useful to somebody at some point, I'll mention yet another
> way to "validate" experimental results using the TSC, that I thought
> of. The Linux kernel indicates to userspace whether it trusts the TSC
> [1]; presumably, if it trusts the TSC both before and *after* the
> experiments, the TSC has not gone haywire in between. 

Good idea; an automatic check for this would be a nice addition to 'ftcat' (in the feather-trace-tools.git repository).

- Björn