* William Lee Irwin III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > yes, that's what i meant under 'slightly async'. Some AMD CPUs are
> > like that too and sched_clock() now handles that fine. So we should
> > try my patch.
>
> Sorry, then. I took slight to mean something else. In any event I was
> only quantifying things. I've no opinion whatsoever on the impact of
> the code on NUMA-Q, only some recall of its operating characteristics.
there's no need to apologize at all! Thanks for reminding us about the
time-scale and nature of the TSC drift on NUMAQ. I was worried that
maybe the TSC was totally unusable for some reason - but that's
fortunately not the case. So we now have one quirk less, hopefully :-)
Ingo
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