Re: It hurts when I shoot myself in the foot

Kasper Dupont (kasperd@daimi.au.dk)
Fri, 24 May 2002 17:20:13 +0200

Alan Cox wrote:
>
> I have code to detect the multiplier of each CPU but never got around to
> making the kernel detect this and turn off TSC usage so you need to boot
> with "notsc" in such a case

If the kernel knew multipliers couldn't it actually use the TSCs
anyway? Of course it would take some work, but is there any
reason why it would not be posible?

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