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From: "Ray Bryant" <raybry@mpdtxmail.amd.com>
To: "Andi Kleen" <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Daniel Jacobowitz" <dan@debian.org>,
	"john stultz" <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
	"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 10:46:25 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200509211046.25555.raybry@mpdtxmail.amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050921150404.GD12810@verdi.suse.de>

On Wednesday 21 September 2005 10:04, Andi Kleen wrote:

>
> We handle this, but single socket dual core was special cased because
> I was told previously it should be ok.
>
> -Andi

AFAIK there is a processor state bit that enables/disables this behavior.
Apparently some BIOS's are setting this one way for desktop systems and the 
other way for servers.   If it is thought to be important I can track that 
down and see if it can be externally documented.  (It may actually be in the 
bios and kernel developer guide...)

-- 
Ray Bryant
AMD Performance Labs                   Austin, Tx
512-602-0038 (o)                 512-507-7807 (c)


  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-21 15:26 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
2005-09-21 15:15           ` Ray Bryant
2005-09-21 15:04             ` Andi Kleen
2005-09-21 15:46               ` Ray Bryant [this message]
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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