Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 May 2007 01:38:13 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: [patch] i386, numaq: enable TSCs again |
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* William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> wrote: >> I remember. It was far beyond "slightly async;" they would drift >> minutes apart during reasonable amounts of uptime, though it would >> take at least several days to drift so far (I don't recall how long it >> took).
On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 10:31:53AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > yes, that's what i meant under 'slightly async'. Some AMD CPUs are like > that too and sched_clock() now handles that fine. So we should try my > patch.
Sorry, then. I took slight to mean something else. In any event I was only quantifying things. I've no opinion whatsoever on the impact of the code on NUMA-Q, only some recall of its operating characteristics.
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