Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 15 Jan 2006 08:25:16 -0800 | From | thockin@hockin ... | Subject | Re: Dual core Athlons and unsynced TSCs |
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On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 01:52:44AM -0700, Zan Lynx wrote: > A laptop user could also bind a process to a single CPU, and use the > scaling min/max values to lock CPU speed to a single value. The TSC may > still stop during HLT, but software must be handling that already. > > Wouldn't that provide an accurate TSC?
monotonic but not linear. Also remember that the OS will use rdtsc here and there, and you can't affine the OS :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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