From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: jbohac@suse.cz
Subject: Re: [patch 4/9] Remove the TSC synchronization on SMP machines
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 12:14:23 +0100
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On Thursday 01 February 2007 10:59, jbohac@suse.cz wrote:
> TSC is either synchronized by design or not reliable
> to be used for anything, let alone timekeeping.

In my tree this is already done better by a patch from Ingo.
Check if they look synchronized and don't use TSC if they are not.

-Andi
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