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    Fixed an error made by ISI during last year's rewriting of the RTSched code · cbe7fc8b
    Shashi Guruprasad authored
    that although appeared to be right was actually causing errors to be
    accumalated. This fixes the high error rates in the bandwidth and loss rate
    numbers reported in OSDI. There are also code optimizations after profiling
    it that reduces the RTSched overhead.
    
    Another source of error was send/consume/request/reply which used to be
    given a very rough estimate of the CPU speed (600 instead of 601.37 Mhz for
    example). The latter comes from the boot up calibration in FreeBSD which
    is supposed to be accurate up to 10 microsecs on a 486.  Using
    600 instead of 601.37 causes an error of 0.22 % in the measurement. That is
    about 1.3 ms for an RTT of 600 ms. This error is worse when send/consume
    are used to calculate throughputs. The longer the period of measurement,
    the worse it becomes.  I have committed changes in them as well. Defining
    the macro CPU_SPEED_IN_KHZ will get you kernels that take CPU_SPEED
    parameters in Khz instead of Mhz. So, you can specify 851940 instead of
    850 for a pc850.
    
    boss:/tftpboot/x86/{send,consume,request,reply}.cpuinkhz lets you specify
    CPU_SPEED in Khz
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