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Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 14:53:07 -0400
From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
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        "Martin J. Bligh" <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [Patch] tsc-disable_A5
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On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 11:35:26AM -0700, john stultz wrote:
> This results in sequential calls to gettimeofday to return
> non-sequential time values. By disabling the TSCs on these boxes, it
> forces gettimeofday to use the PIC clock instead, fixing the problem. 

This seems to be yet another reason for supporting per-CPU TSC 
calibration, as that would fix machines with different speed cpus, too.

		-ben
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