On 13:15 Fri 27 Oct , Lee Revell wrote:
> Someone recently pointed out to me that a Windows "CPU driver update"
> supplied by AMD fixes the unsynced TSC problem on dual core AMD64
> systems.
>
...
> What are the chances of Linux getting a similar fix?
>
> Lee
>
Hi,
This post earlier seems to suggest someone is indeed working on
something similar, if I'm understanding this correctly:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/27/27
quote:
> Jiri Bohac ([email protected]) is currently working on a new timekeeping code for
> x86-64 that takes a significantly different approach that allows for
> precise and fast gettimeofday even on CPUs with unsynchronized TSCs.
Cheers,
Friedrich Göpel
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