From: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
"Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>,
mingo@redhat.com, James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Patch?: linux-2.5.41 multiprocessor vs. CONFIG_X86_TSC
Date: 10 Oct 2002 14:07:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1034284047.19981.43.camel@cog> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1034284641.6463.26.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>
On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 14:17, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 19:22, john stultz wrote:
> > Actually, the TSC is only guaranteed to be a valid time source on
> > uniprocessor machines. Linux tries its best to synchronize the TSCs
> > across cpus at boot, however larger systems where all the cups are not
>
> On a subset of uniprocessor machines...
Ah, very true, good catch.
thanks
-john
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-10 21:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-10 12:02 Patch?: linux-2.5.41 multiprocessor vs. CONFIG_X86_TSC Adam J. Richter
2002-10-10 12:17 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-10-10 16:52 ` James Bottomley
2002-10-10 18:22 ` john stultz
2002-10-10 19:01 ` john stultz
2002-10-10 21:17 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-10 21:07 ` john stultz [this message]
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