Re: CONFIG_X86_TSC_DISABLE question

[uaca@alumni.uv.es]

On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 05:52:55PM -0500, Mark Hahn wrote:

Hi Mark

> > > Depends on your box. Most standard SMP boxes are all clocked off the
> > > same clock, so it's not an issue.
> > 
> > Hi Martin
> > 
> > Thanks for your reply
> > 
> > Is there a way to verify this? or must I contact the motherboard maker and
> > ask for it? how I should ask it?
> 
> any SMP less than $50k is using a single clock to drive the CPUs,
> and therefore has TSC's in sync.  if you owned a numa/clustered
> SMP, you'd know it - they're the only ones that need something special.

Thanks for your reply

I think that CONFIG_X86_TSC_DISABLE should be more informative on this

Ulisses


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