Re: [PATCH] tsc-disable_B9

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
26 Aug 2002 21:23:43 +0100


On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 20:18, Richard B. Johnson wrote:

> The CPU counters are synchronized on SMP machines. How can you
> ever get negative time? Even GHz machines take several months
> to wrap the count.

On a typical intel chipset PC maybe, on anything fancy - nope. Not even
on a 440BX board with mixed speed processors

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