Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] tsc-disable_B9 | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 21 Aug 2002 15:10:24 +0100 |
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On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 14:12, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > However here the point is that the TSC was left _enabled_ (not disabled > and emulated as you are advocating) despite it was not in sync. That > cannot make any sense, except if you use the tsc as a random number > generator.
Totally untrue. When you are doing profiling the data is very useful because CPU switches are trivial to filter and statistically rare
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