Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:48:07 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex |
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* Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 December 2007 09:11:02 Larry Finger wrote: > > > > > > or could tsc being marked as unstable have anything to do with the > > > speed of network transfers? > > > > Absolutely not. > > Well, if the clocksource of the machine is unstable it _can_ cause all > kinds of weird things. If you think something is broken in the tsc > stuff, please switch to using another clocksource.
also, if it gets marked unstable (which is typical on laptops) then the kernel switches to a more stable, non-TSC clocksource automatically. (hpet or pit)
Ingo
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