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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
To: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	discuss@x86-64.org
Subject: Re: [discuss] Re: [PATCH] x86-64: Fix bad assumption that dualcore cpus have synced TSCs
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 00:03:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050921040342.GA7175@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1127242785.11080.20.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com>

On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 11:59:45AM -0700, john stultz wrote:
> So, bugzilla.kernel.org has (temporarily at least) lost the reports from
> yesterday, but from the email i got, folks using my TSC consistency
> check that I posted were seeing what appears to be unsynched TSCs on
> dualcore AMD systems.
> 
> Personally I suspect that the powernow driver is putting the cores
> independently into low power sleep and the TSCs are being independently
> halted, causing them to become unsynchronized.
> 
> Do you still feel there is some other issue here? Any ideas for shaking
> out whatever else might in play?

FYI, at least I have reproduced this without powernow loaded.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-21  4:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-19 19:16 [PATCH] x86-64: Fix bad assumption that dualcore cpus have synced TSCs john stultz
2005-09-19 19:31 ` Andi Kleen
2005-09-19 19:42   ` john stultz
2005-09-19 19:49     ` [discuss] " Andi Kleen
2005-09-20 18:59       ` john stultz
2005-09-21  4:03         ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2005-09-21 15:15           ` Ray Bryant
2005-09-21 15:04             ` Andi Kleen
2005-09-21 15:46               ` Ray Bryant
2005-09-22  8:00                 ` Jonas Oreland
2005-09-21 20:17               ` Andrew Morton
2005-10-07 12:26 ` Vladimir B. Savkin
2005-10-07 12:31   ` Andi Kleen
2005-10-07 14:15     ` Vladimir B. Savkin
2005-10-07 14:21       ` [discuss] " Velu Erwan
2005-10-08 10:11     ` Vladimir B. Savkin
2005-10-10 18:03       ` john stultz
2005-10-10 18:12         ` Vladimir B. Savkin
2005-10-10 18:19           ` Jonas Oreland
2005-10-11  7:35             ` Vladimir B. Savkin
2005-10-11  8:06               ` Andi Kleen
2005-10-11 16:27               ` Jonas Oreland
2005-10-25  7:35                 ` x86-64: Syncing dualcore cpus TSCs Jonas Oreland
2005-10-25  7:42                   ` Andi Kleen
2005-10-26  0:05                     ` David Lang
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-09-20 19:13 [discuss] Re: [PATCH] x86-64: Fix bad assumption that dualcore cpus have synced TSCs Langsdorf, Mark
2005-09-20 19:24 ` Scott Lampert
2005-09-20 19:30   ` john stultz

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