Re: Dropped frames in video capture process

Chris Wedgwood (chris@cybernet.co.nz)
Fri, 13 Nov 1998 11:51:39 +1300


On Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 11:25:47PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:

> Intel SMP runs lockstep off the same clock, and we actually rely on
> that in kernel right now

so both clocks are always in sync? Normally I would assume they are,
but we can trivially make them far apart (set the lower 32-bits of
the current tsc to ~0 or somesuch).

still, if we play those games and things break, we only have
ourselves to blame...

-cw

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