Re: [patch 4/9] Remove the TSC synchronization on SMP machines

From: mbligh
Date: Thu Feb 01 2007 - 16:07:54 EST


Andi Kleen wrote:
On Thursday 01 February 2007 10:59, jbohac@xxxxxxx wrote:
TSC is either synchronized by design or not reliable
to be used for anything, let alone timekeeping.

In my tree this is already done better by a patch from Ingo.
Check if they look synchronized and don't use TSC if they are not.

Is it going to notice dynamically when one cpu ramps down/up
during runtime, and looses sync?

M.

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