Re: Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -8589361717 ns) in currentgit

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Tue, 26 Oct 2010, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 15:58 +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> > > 
> > > This is strange, tsc is actually stable on your F10h revC.
> > 
> > Yes. constant_tsc is among the CPU flags. 
>  
> constant_tsc only means the TSC is not affected by cpu freq changes.
> 
> It has zero relevance to cross-cpu sync of the TSC. The clocksource
> stuff requires your TSC to be synchronous over all your CPUs.

That and not affected by C-States either.

Thanks,

	tglx
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