Re: gettimeofday non-monotonic on SMP 2.3.47

From: Artur Skawina (skawina@geocities.com)
Date: Thu Mar 02 2000 - 14:32:27 EST


Boris Okun wrote:
>
> Now I have a perfectly monotone time and my interactive problems are
> gone -- perfectly usable SMP system with different processors (despite
> all naysayers ;-). If there is any interest I can post a patch.

note that you will also need to fix all other uses of the TSC
(/dev/random might not need it, everything else likely does),
and the busyloops (udelay() etc).

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