Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Mar 2003 22:11:51 -0500 | From | Chris Friesen <> | Subject | Re: System time warping around real time problem - please help |
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Alan Cox wrote:
> If you are using amd76x_pm boot with "notsc", ditto for that matter > on dual athlons with APM or ACPI in some cases. In fact I wish people > would stop using the tsc for clock timing altogether. It simply doesn't > work on a lot of modern systems
But its awfully nice for low-impact high-resolution timestamps.
Maybe someday hardware manufacturers will give us a monotonic GHz+ clock that is synced across all cpus and is cheap to read...
Chris
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