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

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Date:	Fri, 27 Oct 2006 23:28:00 -0400
From:	Lee Revell <rlrevell@...-job.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Cc:	thockin@...kin.org, Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: AMD X2 unsynced TSC fix?

On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 18:04 -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> I don't think it makes too much sense to hack on pure RDTSC when 
> gtod is fast enough -- RDTSC will be always icky and hard to use.

I agree FWIW, our application would be happy to just use gtod if it
wasn't so slow on these machines.

Lee

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