On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 18:37 -0700, David Miller wrote: > There really isn't much that can be done by any of this. These issues > exist because of hardware limitations, nobody bothered to build > x86/x86_64 systems with a system wide TICK register that is both > impervious to cpu frequence scaling and also cheap to access.
actually the tsc is clock speed invariant on pretty much all cpus these days. The problem is that it stops in deeper idle states... (and that it may be out of sync on an multi-socket system) not that it keeps changing frequency ;( (so it still sucks, just differently) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
