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From: David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 14:06:53 +0000
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] kernel update (relative to 2.4.4)
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>>>>> On Wed, 9 May 2001 08:38:42 -0500 (CDT), Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> said:

  Jack> FYI, The IA64 system being built by SGI has multiple
  Jack> nodes. The clocks on different nodes are not synchronized.

This means that (a) you'll have to disable gettimeofday()
interpolation in the kernel and (b) implement an alternate version of
the *clock* routines in libc.  Does SN1 provides some other means to
obtain a system-wide fine-grained timestamp?

	--david