Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933408AbXBCBTQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Feb 2007 20:19:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933406AbXBCBTQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Feb 2007 20:19:16 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:49095 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933408AbXBCBTP (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Feb 2007 20:19:15 -0500 Message-ID: <45C3E259.1050908@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 17:16:09 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070102) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jbohac@suse.cz CC: Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Vojtech Pavlik , ssouhlal@freebsd.org, arjan@infradead.org, tglx@linutronix.de, johnstul@us.ibm.com, zippel@linux-m68k.org, andrea@suse.de Subject: Re: [patch 4/9] Remove the TSC synchronization on SMP machines References: <20070201095952.589234000@jet.suse.cz> <20070201103753.753349000@jet.suse.cz> In-Reply-To: <20070201103753.753349000@jet.suse.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 453 Lines: 12 jbohac@suse.cz wrote: > TSC is either synchronized by design or not reliable > to be used for anything, let alone timekeeping. This refers to eliminating the offset between multiple synchronized TSCs. -hpa - 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/