Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphoreto mutex

[Ingo Molnar]

* Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wednesday 19 December 2007 09:11:02 Larry Finger wrote:
> > > 
> > > or could tsc being marked as unstable have anything to do with the
> > > speed of network transfers?
> > 
> > Absolutely not.
> 
> Well, if the clocksource of the machine is unstable it _can_ cause all 
> kinds of weird things. If you think something is broken in the tsc 
> stuff, please switch to using another clocksource.

also, if it gets marked unstable (which is typical on laptops) then the 
kernel switches to a more stable, non-TSC clocksource automatically. 
(hpet or pit)

	Ingo
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