RE: Dual core Athlons and unsynced TSCs

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Sat Jan 14 2006 - 01:52:53 EST


On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Lee Revell wrote:

> I want to know if clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, *ts) is actually
> guaranteed to be monotonic on these machines AKA do we break POSIX
> compliance or not.

Yes you do. Other arches have had the same issues.... See IA64 code.

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