Re: high res timestamps and SMP
From: Chris Friesen
Date: Thu Nov 20 2003 - 17:34:31 EST
Anton Blanchard wrote:
Running the multiplier at a set fraction of the processor speed
is a good idea I think. Go look at any large x86 box (and possibly ia64
box) and you will find the timebases are not synced.
By "large", you mean NUMA, right? I was under the impression that the
kernel did sync up the timebases for SMP.
Chris
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