From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86-64: Fix bad assumption that dualcore cpus have synced TSCs (resend)
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:34:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200509271034.45360.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050926133331.11bf4963.akpm@osdl.org>
On Monday 26 September 2005 22:33, Andrew Morton wrote:
> john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > This patch should resolve the issue seen in bugme bug #5105, where it
> > is assumed that dualcore x86_64 systems have synced TSCs. This is not
> > the case, and alternate timesources should be used instead.
> >
> > For more details, see:
> > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5105
> >
> > Andi's earlier concerns that the TSCs should be synced on dualcore
> > systems have been resolved by confirmation from AMD folks that they can
> > be unsynced.
>
> OK, thanks - it's good to knock that one over.
>
> Andi, does this look OK for 2.6.14?
Yes.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-27 8:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-26 19:46 [PATCH] x86-64: Fix bad assumption that dualcore cpus have synced TSCs (resend) john stultz
2005-09-26 20:33 ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-27 8:34 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2005-09-26 22:15 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2005-09-26 22:28 ` john stultz
2005-09-26 23:31 ` Stefan Smietanowski
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