Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: RFD: nanoseconds, rdtsc and SMP | Date | Thu, 25 Feb 1999 14:09:12 +0000 (GMT) |
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> On the i386, at least currently, they will all operate in sync, but > may not start out from the same value (they are *supposed* to, but it > turns out to be buggy in practice.)
They aren't even required to by the MP 1.1 spec at least, and I dont remember seeing such a requirement in MP 1.4. It was just a convenient "works all the time" assumption
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