From: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org, bunk@stusta.de,
lethal@linux-sh.org, hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp,
asit.k.mallick@intel.com
Subject: Re: REGRESSION: the new i386 timer code fails to sync CPUs
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:55:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060730215509.GA3662@kiste.smurf.noris.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1154294444.2941.50.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Hi,
Arjan van de Ven:
> if the hardware side is different *speed*.. then a tsc sync ain't going
> to work... sure we write to it but it's immediately out of sync again
>
No, it's in fact the same speed -- the BIOS just reads it wrongly.
I checked: the two date values do advance at the same rate.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-30 21:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-22 23:36 REGRESSION: the new i386 timer code fails to sync CPUs Matthias Urlichs
2006-07-23 0:36 ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-23 8:16 ` Matthias Urlichs
2006-07-23 11:46 ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-23 12:08 ` Matthias Urlichs
2006-07-23 12:37 ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-23 12:58 ` Matthias Urlichs
2006-07-24 15:52 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2006-07-24 15:58 ` john stultz
2006-07-24 17:17 ` Matthias Urlichs
2006-07-24 17:51 ` Andi Kleen
2006-07-24 20:54 ` john stultz
2006-07-30 9:03 ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-30 9:49 ` Matthias Urlichs
2006-07-30 20:10 ` Andi Kleen
2006-07-30 20:55 ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-30 21:13 ` Matthias Urlichs
2006-07-30 21:20 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-30 21:55 ` Matthias Urlichs [this message]
2006-08-01 1:47 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2006-08-01 3:14 ` Matthias Urlichs
2006-07-30 21:57 ` Andi Kleen
2006-07-30 22:28 ` Matthias Urlichs
2006-07-31 14:24 ` Matthias Urlichs
2006-07-24 17:39 ` Andi Kleen
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