RE: Dual core Athlons and unsynced TSCs

From: john stultz
Date: Fri Jan 13 2006 - 20:48:48 EST


On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 20:43 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, john stultz wrote:
>
> >
> > This is as I understand it:
> >
> > With 2.6.15 on x86-64:
> > If available, alternate timesources (HPET, ACPI PM) will be used if
> > available on AMD SMP systems. (clock= is i386 only)
>
> Hmm, should I boot without the clock= to prove this?

Feel free. That or grep the x86-64 time.c code.

Look for:
time.c: Using PM based timekeeping.

To verify the timesource selection.

thanks
-john

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