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From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>,
	john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: high res timestamps and SMP
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 17:31:23 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FBD40BB.6080100@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20031120194644.GA11889@krispykreme

Anton Blanchard wrote:

> Running the multiplier at a set fraction of the processor speed
> is a good idea I think. Go look at any large x86 box (and possibly ia64
> box) and you will find the timebases are not synced.

By "large", you mean NUMA, right?  I was under the impression that the 
kernel did sync up the timebases for SMP.

Chris


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      reply	other threads:[~2003-11-20 22:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-19 22:40 high res timestamps and SMP Chris Friesen
2003-11-20  3:02 ` john stultz
2003-11-20 10:21   ` Mikael Pettersson
2003-11-20 19:46     ` Anton Blanchard
2003-11-20 22:31       ` Chris Friesen [this message]

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