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SubjectRe: asymmetric multiprocessing
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On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 14:13, Mark Hahn wrote:
> not supported (and frowned upon by the spec). the issue is TSC,
> of course, and it's definitely not clear whether the normal case
> (correctly configured SMP) should be burdoned by support for
> mixed-clock chips.

I'm no expert on MP, hence I fail to see why differing clock speeds
between CPUs should be a problem providing the system bus rates are
constant. As each CPU would be rated differently as far as bogomips are
concerned, couldn't the scheduler apply load accordingly?


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