Subject: RE: Dual core Athlons and unsynced TSCs
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
       "'linux-kernel'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Roger Heflin <rheflin@atipa.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
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Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:48:32 -0500
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On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 21:46 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 15:43 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> 
> > Ugh.  In arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c monotonic_clock() uses the TSC
> > unconditionally.
> 
> Can you try 
> 
> http://tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/2.6.15/patch-2.6.15-hrt2.patch
> 
> please ?

I can try it (well I can pass it on to someone who has the hardware),
but that's a huge patch, not likely to be mergeable in the 2.6.16
timeframe.  Surely there has to be a way this can be fixed for 2.6.16?

Lee

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