RE: Dual core Athlons and unsynced TSCs

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 15:48 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 21:46 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 15:43 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> > 
> > > Ugh.  In arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c monotonic_clock() uses the TSC
> > > unconditionally.
> > 
> > Can you try 
> > 
> > http://tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/2.6.15/patch-2.6.15-hrt2.patch
> > 
> > please ?
> 
> I can try it (well I can pass it on to someone who has the hardware),
> but that's a huge patch, not likely to be mergeable in the 2.6.16
> timeframe.  Surely there has to be a way this can be fixed for 2.6.16?

Parts of the patch are in mainline (-gitX), but those alone will not fix
the problem AFAICS

	tglx


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