Re: [patch 13/19] GTOD: Mark TSC unusable for highres timers

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Fri Nov 10 2006 - 05:29:04 EST


On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 06:10 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Very sad. This will make a lot of people unhappy, even to the point
> where they might prefer disabling noidlehz over super slow gettimeofday.
> I assume you at least have a suitable command line option for that, right?
>
> Can we get a summary on which systems the TSC is considered unstable?

the part where it stops in idle...
(the rest is fixed in recent enough hw)

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