Re: REGRESSION: the new i386 timer code fails to sync CPUs

> I guess Matthias didn't test this patch.  Can we get some obviously-correct
> fix in place for 2.6.18?

So far we don't have any idea what the problem is on that system.

> It is a "CPU0: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz stepping 03".

Was that on that system? I guess it could be checked for and TSC 
be forced off. It sounds like a real CPU bug however.

-Andi
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