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SubjectRe: Dual Xeon Time skips with 2.6
Bill Davidsen wrote:
> This sounds familiar, although much larger than what I see, is it
> possible for an Intel dual core CPU to do this as well? I sometimes see
> very unintuitive timestamps on network stuff.

As far as I know that shouldn't happen.. though people thought the same
thing with AMD dual core CPUs and it turns out the TSCs can apparently
drift, I believe this was recently changed.

Can you verify whether or not this sort of time skew is actually happening?

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