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Subject: RE: [discuss] Re: [PATCH] Allow all Opteron processors to change
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> Customers in the field seem to want to use TSC for gtod,
> so I want to know how awful an idea that is.

in userspace or in the kernel? And do you happen to know why they don't
want to use hpet?

Greetings,
    Arjan van de Ven