linux-kernel - Re: AMD X2 unsynced TSC fix?

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Date:	Fri, 27 Oct 2006 23:49:24 -0700
From:	thockin@...kin.org
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	Sergio Monteiro Basto <sergio@...giomb.no-ip.org>,
	Lee Revell <rlrevell@...-job.com>,
	Chris Friesen <cfriesen@...tel.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: AMD X2 unsynced TSC fix?

On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 11:46:15PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 23:35:24 -0700
> thockin@...kin.org wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 09:06:12PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > 
> > > > So far, has I can understand. Seems to me that my computer which have a
> > > > Pentium D (Dual Core) on VIA chipset, also have unsynchronized TSC and
> > > > with the patch of hrtimers on
> > > 
> > > Intel systems (except for some large highend systems) have synchronized TSCs. 
> > 
> > Does Intel guarantee that, or is that just what we happen to see, so far.
> 
> Matthias has a Xeon machine on which the TSCs are unsynced, and which are
> unsyncable - write_tsc() just doesn't do anything.  See thread at
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/22/104

Nothing at all, or just the the low few bits are writeable?  I had heard,
but never seen that some Intel CPUs only allowed 16 bits of writable bits
in the TSC MSR.  I also heard of, but never saw, CPUs that cleared the TSC
to 0 on a write!
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