Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932217AbVJKQ2L (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Oct 2005 12:28:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932208AbVJKQ2L (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Oct 2005 12:28:11 -0400 Received: from mailgate2.mysql.com ([213.136.52.47]:3815 "EHLO mailgate.mysql.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932217AbVJKQ2K (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Oct 2005 12:28:10 -0400 Message-ID: <434BE7E9.8000501@mysql.com> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 18:27:21 +0200 From: Jonas Oreland User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050911 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Vladimir B. Savkin" CC: john stultz , Andi Kleen , lkml , Andrew Morton , discuss@x86-64.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86-64: Fix bad assumption that dualcore cpus have synced TSCs References: <1127157404.3455.209.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> <20051007122624.GA23606@tentacle.sectorb.msk.ru> <200510071431.47245.ak@suse.de> <20051008101153.GA1541@tentacle.sectorb.msk.ru> <1128967404.8195.419.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> <20051010181216.GA21548@tentacle.sectorb.msk.ru> <434AB0BE.3080206@mysql.com> <20051011073532.GA29254@tentacle.sectorb.msk.ru> In-Reply-To: <20051011073532.GA29254@tentacle.sectorb.msk.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 763 Lines: 23 Vladimir B. Savkin wrote: > On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 08:19:42PM +0200, Jonas Oreland wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>check http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5283 > > > Excuse me for possibly dumb question, but is it safe to leave TSCs > unsynchronized when using other time source? > How will other subsystems e.g. traffic queueing disciplines react? Excuse me for possibly dumb answer: (i'm not a kernel hacker) yes, I would guess that this will be handled as any other SMP machine where TSCs arent in sync. /Jonas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/