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SubjectRe: gettimeofday non-monotonic on SMP 2.3.47
Artur Skawina wrote:

> > How hard is to force reading TSC of just say the boot processor in
> > do_gettimeoffset?
>
> it's not "how hard", it's "how slow" ;) You would actually have to
> execute the code (rdtsc) on another processor...

Why should it be any slower, especially if another processor happened to
be idle ;)?
In any case, I guess I don't have too many options here. Could somebody
point me to a ref on how to pin a code to a processor? Please...

Boris

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