Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 28 Oct 2006 07:28:38 +0200 | From | Willy Tarreau <> | Subject | Re: AMD X2 unsynced TSC fix? |
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On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 11:28:00PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 18:04 -0700, Andi Kleen wrote: > > I don't think it makes too much sense to hack on pure RDTSC when > > gtod is fast enough -- RDTSC will be always icky and hard to use. > > I agree FWIW, our application would be happy to just use gtod if it > wasn't so slow on these machines.
Agreed, I had to turn about 20 dual-core servers to single core because the only way to get a monotonic gtod made it so slow that it was not worth using a dual-core. I initially considered buying one dual-core AMD for my own use, but after seeing this, I'm definitely sure I won't ever buy one as long as this problem is not fixed, as it causes too many problems.
Willy
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