Re: System time warping around real time problem - please help

[Alan Cox]

On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 02:28, george anzinger wrote:
> Stands for Time Stamp Counter.  It is a special cpu register that 
> basically counts cpu cycles.  Some times (incorrectly me thinks) it is 
> affected by power management code which slows the cpu by changing the 
> cpu frequency.

Not incorrectly. It counts cpu clocks, its designed for profiling and
the like. There is no guarantee in any Intel MP standard that the clocks
are synched up.