Re: test time-warps [was: Re: 2.6.14-rt13]

[Christopher Friesen]

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:

> > Basically if there is an observable and provable warp in the TSC output 
> > then it must not be used for any purpose that is not strictly 
> > per-CPU-ified (such as userspace threads bound to a single CPU, and the 
> > TSC never used between threads).

> Apparently that's the case.

What about periodically re-syncing the TSCs on the cpus?  Are they 
writeable?

Chris

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