Hi! > > > > If so, could that function use the PIT/pmtimer/etc for working out > > > > if the TSC is bust, rather than directly using jiffies? > > > > > > there's no realiable way to figure out the TSC is bust: some CPUs > > > have a slight 'skew' between cores for example. On some systems the > > > TSC might skew between sockets. A CPU might break its TSC only once > > > some > > > > But we could still do a whitelist? > > we could, but it would have to be almost empty right now :-) Reason: Well, if it would contain at least 50% of the UP machines... that would be reasonably long list for a start. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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