On Friday 10 November 2006 11:55, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> >
> > Most systems don't have C3 right now. And on those that have
> > (laptops) it tends to be not that critical because they normally
> > don't run workload where gettimeofday() is really time critical
> > (and nobody expects them to be particularly fast anyways)
>
> and that got changed when the blade people decided to start using laptop
> processors ......
Well those will be handled eventually. Currently they just have
a slower gettimeofday.
But the majority of systems is not impacted.
BTW if someone really wants to have fast gettimeofday on a blade
they can just disable C3 and force TSC.
-Andi
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