> I don't quite understand the purpose of the patch to begin with. Looking at > the current x86 git tree, apic_is_clustered_box is used only to determine if > tsc is synchronized on the platform. The AMD docs imply that TSC's are not > guaranteed to be synced across cores between nodes -- Opteron BKDG for > family 10h, Section 2.9.4:
After long discussions with AMD they determined the CPUID flag for sync RDTSC will imply synchronization between nodes. If you can't support that in your hardware you're supposed to clear it. -Andi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
