> > > Now that we have an accurate tsc frequency, I would like to expose this
> > > information to userland via a sysctl.
> > >
> > > The diff below exposes the tsc frequency and if it is invariant.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Adam
> > >
> > >
> > Please ignore that diff, looks like i had some dregs from a older diff i
> > had been testing
> 
> Yeah, I've renamed a few things and deliberately skipped the sysctl part
> so that we can test for regressions and don't mess with exposed interfaces
> if we need to back out.  So I'd wait a few weeks for people to get it
> running on a variety of systems and report the fallout if any.

The frequency can be found in dmesg.

Is there a particular reason why a piece of software has to query it
with sysctl?  

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