From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 24 May 2002 11:20:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 24 May 2002 11:20:20 -0400 Received: from daimi.au.dk ([130.225.16.1]:23138 "EHLO daimi.au.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 24 May 2002 11:20:17 -0400 Message-ID: <3CEE5A2D.77EA2E66@daimi.au.dk> Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 17:20:13 +0200 From: Kasper Dupont Organization: daimi.au.dk X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.9-31smp i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux-Kernel Subject: Re: It hurts when I shoot myself in the foot In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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? -- Kasper Dupont -- der bruger for meget tid på usenet. For sending spam use mailto:razor-report@daimi.au.dk