From: thockin@hockin.org
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Dual core Athlons and unsynced TSCs
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:06:21 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060113180620.GA14382@hockin.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1137104260.2370.85.camel@mindpipe>
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 05:17:39PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> It's been known for quite some time that the TSCs are not synced between
> cores on Athlon X2 machines and this screws up the kernel's timekeeping,
> as it still uses the TSC as the default time source on these machines.
>
> This problem still seems to be present in the latest kernels. What is
> the plan to fix it? Is the fix simply to make the kernel use the ACPI
> PM timer by default on Athlon X2?
If your BIOS has an ACPI "HPET" table, then the kernel can use the HPET
timer instead. It doesn't solve the problem for apps or other kernel bits
that use rdtsc directly, but there are other fixes for that floating
around which will hopefully get consideration when they're mature.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-13 17:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-12 22:17 Dual core Athlons and unsynced TSCs Lee Revell
2006-01-13 15:10 ` Roger Heflin
2006-01-13 16:04 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-13 17:47 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-13 17:52 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-13 17:54 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-13 18:41 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-13 18:55 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-13 20:09 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-13 20:26 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-13 20:40 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-13 20:43 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-13 20:46 ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-01-13 20:48 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-13 20:51 ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-01-13 20:52 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-13 21:05 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-13 21:10 ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-01-13 21:17 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-16 9:52 ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-01-16 15:55 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-14 0:23 ` john stultz
2006-01-14 1:10 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-14 1:14 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-14 1:23 ` john stultz
2006-01-14 1:27 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-14 1:39 ` john stultz
2006-01-14 1:43 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-14 1:50 ` john stultz
2006-01-14 2:15 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-14 2:34 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-16 1:19 ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-14 6:54 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-01-13 18:06 ` thockin [this message]
2006-01-13 17:58 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-13 18:16 ` thockin
2006-01-13 18:09 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-13 18:55 ` thockin
2006-01-13 18:56 ` Sven-Thorsten Dietrich
2006-01-13 19:00 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-13 19:07 ` Sven-Thorsten Dietrich
2006-01-13 21:18 ` David Lang
2006-01-13 21:56 ` thockin
2006-01-13 22:05 ` David Lang
2006-01-13 22:18 ` Sven-Thorsten Dietrich
2006-01-13 22:49 ` David Lang
2006-01-14 0:41 ` Andreas Steinmetz
2006-01-14 1:04 ` David Lang
2006-01-14 1:21 ` Andreas Steinmetz
2006-01-14 1:51 ` thockin
2006-01-15 8:52 ` Zan Lynx
2006-01-15 16:25 ` thockin
2006-01-15 16:33 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-15 18:21 ` thockin
2006-01-15 18:29 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-15 18:49 ` thockin
2006-01-14 1:13 ` thockin
2006-01-13 22:23 ` thockin
2006-01-13 19:13 ` Xavier Bestel
2006-01-13 19:32 ` thockin
2006-01-13 20:58 ` Steven Rostedt
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2006-01-14 0:24 ` Robert Hancock
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