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

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Subject: Re: [patch 4/9] Remove the TSC synchronization on SMP machines
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 17:16:09 -0800
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>, [email protected], Vojtech Pavlik <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
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[email protected] wrote:

TSC is either synchronized by design or not reliable
to be used for anything, let alone timekeeping.


This refers to eliminating the offset between multiple synchronized TSCs.

	-hpa
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References:
- [patch 0/9] x86_64: reliable TSC-based gettimeofday
  - From: [email protected]
- [patch 4/9] Remove the TSC synchronization on SMP machines
  - From: [email protected]

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