Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
>
>>>lap tops), is the fact that TSC is NOT clocked at a fixed rate. It is
>>>affected by throttling (reduced in 12.5% increments) and by power
>>>management.
>>>
>>If the TSC is affected by HLT, throttling, or C2 power management, the
>>TSC is broken (as it is on Cyrix chips, for example.) The TSC usually
>>*is* affected by C3 power management, but the OS should be aware of
>>C3.
>>
>
> Add thinkpad 560X (pentium/MMX) and toshiba 4030cdt (celeron) to your
> blacklist, then. I believe that by your definition *many* sstems are
> broken.
> Pavel
It's sad but true. Unfortunately the TSC seems to be considered a
low-priority operation. It's for systems like the above you need the
"no-tsc" option.
-hpa
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