Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: asymmetric multiprocessing | From | "Martin A. Brooks" <> | Date | 20 Dec 2001 14:33:22 +0000 |
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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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