Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 May 2007 10:41:15 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [patch] i386, numaq: enable TSCs again |
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* William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> wrote:
> > yes, that's what i meant under 'slightly async'. Some AMD CPUs are > > like that too and sched_clock() now handles that fine. So we should > > try my patch. > > Sorry, then. I took slight to mean something else. In any event I was > only quantifying things. I've no opinion whatsoever on the impact of > the code on NUMA-Q, only some recall of its operating characteristics.
there's no need to apologize at all! Thanks for reminding us about the time-scale and nature of the TSC drift on NUMAQ. I was worried that maybe the TSC was totally unusable for some reason - but that's fortunately not the case. So we now have one quirk less, hopefully :-)
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