Re: Dual core Athlons and unsynced TSCs

[thockin@hockin.org]

On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 01:52:44AM -0700, Zan Lynx wrote:
> A laptop user could also bind a process to a single CPU, and use the
> scaling min/max values to lock CPU speed to a single value.  The TSC may
> still stop during HLT, but software must be handling that already.
> 
> Wouldn't that provide an accurate TSC?

monotonic but not linear.  Also remember that the OS will use rdtsc here
and there, and you can't affine the OS :)
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