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Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 17:22:17 +0100
To: Mark Hahn <hahn@physics.mcmaster.ca>
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Subject: Re: CONFIG_X86_TSC_DISABLE question
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On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 06:01:13PM -0500, Mark Hahn wrote:
> > I think that CONFIG_X86_TSC_DISABLE should be more informative on this
> 
> at most, it should say "don't worry about this unless you need to.
> and you'll know it if you need to".


And It should say that the kernel test TSCs are syncroniced across CPUS at
boot time, which I've just have found:

The message is the following in a 2.4.19-pre6 kernel

checking TSC synchronization across CPUs: passed.


I hope this helps somebody


	Ulisses

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