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SubjectRe: [patch 13/19] GTOD: Mark TSC unusable for highres timers
Hi!

> > > > If so, could that function use the PIT/pmtimer/etc for working out
> > > > if the TSC is bust, rather than directly using jiffies?
> > >
> > > there's no realiable way to figure out the TSC is bust: some CPUs
> > > have a slight 'skew' between cores for example. On some systems the
> > > TSC might skew between sockets. A CPU might break its TSC only once
> > > some
> >
> > But we could still do a whitelist?
>
> we could, but it would have to be almost empty right now :-) Reason:

Well, if it would contain at least 50% of the UP machines... that
would be reasonably long list for a start.
Pavel
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