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Date:      Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:46:02 +0100
From:      David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        Jeff Roberson <jroberson@jroberson.net>
Cc:        gnn@freebsd.org, Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: TSC Timecounter and multi-core/SMP
Message-ID:  <20080415084602.GA44129@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: <20080414215057.B959@desktop>
References:  <m2d4oy8n30.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com> <18431.23276.913397.188219@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <m27iezwonx.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com> <20080414215057.B959@desktop>

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On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 09:51:42PM -1000, Jeff Roberson wrote:
> I think we should confirm whether this is the case with earlier opterson. 
> I have seen two processors on the same die out of sync.

This can definitely happen according to this note from AMD, which
someone posted a link to earlier in the thread:

	http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/11/4/173

it can happen when you hlt one core, but don't hlt the other on
some processors.

	David.



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