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    SubjectRe: AMD X2 unsynced TSC fix?
    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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