linux-kernel - Re: TSC Problems (warp between CPUs)

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Date:	Sat, 28 Dec 2013 05:02:52 +0100
From:	Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@...ine.de>
To:	Alex <xor@....bz>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TSC Problems (warp between CPUs)

On Sat, 2013-12-28 at 13:24 +1100, Alex wrote:

> Linux does not write to the TSC since quite a while... which means the 
> BIOS is doing that. It really should not.

I saw the same on an Intel server recently, poor thing was stuck with
using HPET.

-Mike

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