Re: Patch?: linux-2.5.41 multiprocessor vs. CONFIG_X86_TSC

From: john stultz (johnstul@us.ibm.com)
Date: Thu Oct 10 2002 - 16:07:27 EST


On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 14:17, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 19:22, john stultz wrote:
> > Actually, the TSC is only guaranteed to be a valid time source on
> > uniprocessor machines. Linux tries its best to synchronize the TSCs
> > across cpus at boot, however larger systems where all the cups are not
>
> On a subset of uniprocessor machines...

Ah, very true, good catch.

thanks
-john

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