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Subject: Re: "No probed ethernet devices" caused by inaccurate
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Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 10:13:09 -0800
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TSC has lots of platform related issues. It is not guaranteed sync'd across physical
packages and AMD boxes have lots of problems.

Why does delay_ms not just use nanosleep() and let the OS worry about it?
On a related note, I have found that putting the worker (non master) threads
into real time scheduling class also helps.