Re: [patch 4/9] Remove the TSC synchronization on SMP machines

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On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:

> I've threatened to just disable RDTSC for ring 3 before, but it'll likely
> never happen because too many programs use it.

Those programs are aware that they are fiddling around with low level 
material but with this patchset we are going to have a non 
monotonic time subsystem? Programs expects gettimeofday() etc to be 
monotonic. Its going to a big surprise if that is not working anymore.

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