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> Is there a simple procedure to determine whether the TSCs on any given
> multi-CPU machine are synchronized?

Ensure that the TSCs are used, then run a program which calls
gettimeofday() in a loop and prints an error message each time the
clock steps backwards.  Repeat procedure after 1 day of uptime.

- Tor Egge