Re: [patch 13/19] GTOD: Mark TSC unusable for highres timers

[Ingo Molnar]

* Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> > we could, but it would have to be almost empty right now :-) Reason: 
> > even on systems that have (hardware-initialized) 'perfect' TSCs and 
> > which do not support any frequency scaling or power-saving mode, our 
> > current TSC initialization on SMP systems introduces a small (1-2 usecs) 
> > skew.
> 
> On Intel we don't sync the TSC anymore [...]

yeah, after i reported this a few months ago ;-)

	Ingo
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