linux-kernel - Re: REGRESSION: the new i386 timer code fails to sync CPUs

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Date:	Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:20:44 +0200
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Matthias Urlichs <smurf@...rf.noris.de>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <ak@....de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...l.org, bunk@...sta.de,
	lethal@...ux-sh.org, hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp,
	asit.k.mallick@...el.com
Subject: Re: REGRESSION: the new i386 timer code fails to sync CPUs

On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 23:13 +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Andi Kleen:
> > > It is a "CPU0: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz stepping 03".
> > 
> > Was that on that system? I guess it could be checked for and TSC 
> > be forced off. It sounds like a real CPU bug however.
> > 
> Board problem? After all, it has some very noxious DMI entries:
> 
> System Information
>         Manufacturer: Intel Corporation
>         Product Name: Nocona/Tumwater Customer Reference Board
>         Version: Revision A0
>         Serial Number: 0123456789
>         UUID: 0A0A0A0A-0A0A-0A0A-0A0A-0A0A0A0A0A0A
> 
> ... all of which are patently *wrong*.
> 
> You'd have to ask the people from Tyan what the hell they were smoking
> when they blindly copied the Intel data.
> 
> At least the different CPU speed issue is a known bug, fixed by a
> BIOS update. I'll postpone that until we have a working kernel fix,
> for obvious reasons.

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


> 
-- 
if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com

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