From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
To: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [patch] Mark rdtsc as sync only for netburst, not for core2
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:35:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <456D4648.7000509@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1164787104.2899.7.camel@ymzhang>
Zhang, Yanmin wrote:
>> but second of all, the core2 cpus are dual core so.. .what does it
>> bring you at all?
>
> When there is only one cpu (or UP), the go backwards issue doesn't exist,
it does exist for single-socket dual core already. And core2 is dual
core...
> so
> don't use cpuid here for UP. Another function init_amd already does so.
>
not anymore.. that got fixed very recently...
(but you are right; on AMD the speculation is even bigger so there
even on single core you need cpuid)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-29 8:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-28 10:28 [patch] Mark rdtsc as sync only for netburst, not for core2 Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-28 10:36 ` Andi Kleen
[not found] ` <1164774239.15257.5.camel@ymzhang>
2006-11-29 7:30 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-29 8:05 ` Nick Piggin
2006-11-29 9:04 ` Zhang, Yanmin
[not found] ` <1164787104.2899.7.camel@ymzhang>
2006-11-29 8:35 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2006-11-29 9:07 ` Zhang, Yanmin
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