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From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Albert Cahalan <acahalan@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk,
	safemode@comcast.net
Subject: Re: athlon 64 dual core tsc out of sync
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 21:24:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1139106254.2791.91.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <787b0d920602041745k65504414taaaef7f6d75b364c@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 20:45 -0500, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> Clock ticks get lost all the time. The BIOS may decide do grab the
> CPU in SMM (system management mode) for many milliseconds at a time. 

And FWIW such systems should be considered horribly broken - this
behavior renders them useless for a wide range of common applications.

Lee


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-02-05  2:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-04 20:24 athlon 64 dual core tsc out of sync Albert Cahalan
2006-02-05  1:00 ` Lee Revell
2006-02-05  1:45   ` Albert Cahalan
2006-02-05  2:08     ` Lee Revell
2006-02-05  3:02       ` Ed Sweetman
2006-02-05  5:08         ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-02-05  2:24     ` Lee Revell [this message]
2006-02-05  5:06 ` Alistair John Strachan
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-02-04  2:10 Ed Sweetman
2006-02-04 19:03 ` Lee Revell
2006-02-04 19:52   ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-02-04 21:55     ` Ed Sweetman
2006-02-04 19:16 ` Lee Revell
2006-02-05 16:32 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-06  1:12   ` Ed Sweetman

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