From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Dual Xeon Time skips with 2.6
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 18:18:11 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <434C5643.3040706@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4WyVi-5Xb-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
Bill Davidsen wrote:
> This sounds familiar, although much larger than what I see, is it
> possible for an Intel dual core CPU to do this as well? I sometimes see
> very unintuitive timestamps on network stuff.
As far as I know that shouldn't happen.. though people thought the same
thing with AMD dual core CPUs and it turns out the TSCs can apparently
drift, I believe this was recently changed.
Can you verify whether or not this sort of time skew is actually happening?
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2005-10-12 0:18 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
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2005-10-10 19:55 ` Dual Xeon Time skips with 2.6 Robert Hancock
2005-10-11 11:24 ` Cornelius Thiele
2005-10-11 20:22 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-10-10 19:35 Cornelius Thiele
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