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From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: marcelo@conectiva.com.br, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Martin J. Bligh" <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [Patch] tsc-disable_A5
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 14:53:07 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020614145307.G22888@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1024079726.29929.131.camel@cog>

On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 11:35:26AM -0700, john stultz wrote:
> This results in sequential calls to gettimeofday to return
> non-sequential time values. By disabling the TSCs on these boxes, it
> forces gettimeofday to use the PIC clock instead, fixing the problem. 

This seems to be yet another reason for supporting per-CPU TSC 
calibration, as that would fix machines with different speed cpus, too.

		-ben
-- 
"You will be reincarnated as a toad; and you will be much happier."

  reply	other threads:[~2002-06-14 18:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-14 18:35 [Patch] tsc-disable_A5 john stultz
2002-06-14 18:53 ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
2002-06-18  0:48   ` Kurt Garloff
2002-06-18  1:31     ` john stultz
2002-06-14 18:57 ` Dave Jones
2002-06-14 19:04   ` john stultz
2002-06-14 19:56     ` Dave Jones
2002-06-14 23:29       ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-06-14 23:44         ` john stultz
2002-06-24  2:09 ` Pavel Machek
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-06-14 21:53 Mikael Pettersson
2002-06-14 22:11 ` john stultz
2002-06-15 14:13 Mikael Pettersson
2002-06-19 13:58 ` Maciej W. Rozycki

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