RE: Dual core Athlons and unsynced TSCs

Lee Revell
2006-01-13T20:48:37Z

On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 21:46 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 15:43 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
>
> > Ugh. In arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c monotonic_clock() uses the TSC
> > unconditionally.
>
> Can you try
>
> http://tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/2.6.15/patch-2.6.15-hrt2.patch
>
> please ?

I can try it (well I can pass it on to someone who has the hardware),
but that's a huge patch, not likely to be mergeable in the 2.6.16
timeframe. Surely there has to be a way this can be fixed for 2.6.16?

Lee