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Date:      Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:38:05 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc:        David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>, gnn@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Jeff Roberson <jroberson@jroberson.net>, Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Subject:   Re: TSC Timecounter and multi-core/SMP
Message-ID:  <20080418003805.GE11705@dragon.NUXI.org>
In-Reply-To: <e7db6d980804152143x4dcd17efn15bd37632ec42108@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <m2d4oy8n30.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com> <18431.23276.913397.188219@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <m27iezwonx.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com> <20080414215057.B959@desktop> <20080415084602.GA44129@walton.maths.tcd.ie> <e7db6d980804152143x4dcd17efn15bd37632ec42108@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:43:04PM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote:
> AMD even ship a special program / driver / hack / whatever that
> synchronizes the TSC on multi-core systems.

For MS-Windows.  Because MSFT and Windows programmers cannot manage
to DTRT.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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