RE: Dual core Athlons and unsynced TSCs

Thomas Gleixner
2006-01-13T20:51:43Z

On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 15:48 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> 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?

Parts of the patch are in mainline (-gitX), but those alone will not fix
the problem AFAICS

tglx