From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 09:17:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 09:17:24 -0500 Received: from ns.suse.de ([213.95.15.193]:44036 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 09:17:23 -0500 To: Paul Larson Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [LTP] Re: LTP - gettimeofday02 FAIL References: <200211190127.gAJ1RWg11023@linux.local.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <1037713044.24031.15.camel@plars.suse.lists.linux.kernel> From: Andi Kleen Date: 19 Nov 2002 15:24:25 +0100 In-Reply-To: Paul Larson's message of "19 Nov 2002 14:45:46 +0100" Message-ID: X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.6 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Paul Larson writes: > This has been noticed, I've posted to lkml about it. The only person > who replied to me seems to be suggesting it is a hardware issue, but I > can't believe it is impossible to work around. It is very hard to solve properly and efficiently. When you search the list archives you will find long threads about the problem (search for "TSC" and gettimeofday and perhaps HPET or cyclone). Last one was one or two weeks ago. The problem has been there always in some way in linux, now it is just exposed in LTP because it tests for it. -Andi