RE: Dual core Athlons and unsynced TSCs

Lee Revell
2006-01-13T20:43:06Z

On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 15:26 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 15:09 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
> > Nope it doesn't work :-(
> >
> > I ran this test:
> > http://www.kihontech.com/tests/rt/monotonic.c
> >
> [...]
> >
> > I'll reboot to vanilla 2.6.15 and see if that is broken too (just to
> > make sure)
> >
>
> Failed on 2.6.15 too:
>

Ugh. In arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c monotonic_clock() uses the TSC
unconditionally.

Lee