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Date:      Fri, 23 Aug 2002 23:02:29 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: how to compute the skew between TSC in SMP systems ? 
Message-ID:  <29486.1030136549@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 23 Aug 2002 13:44:10 PDT." <20020823134410.A81962@iguana.icir.org> 

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In message <20020823134410.A81962@iguana.icir.org>, Luigi Rizzo writes:
>Hi,
>does anyone have an idea on how to determine the skew between
>TSC content in the various processors on an SMP box ?

On i386: It cannot be reliably done.  Been there, tried that.

On alpha: Cannot be done, they run different frequencies.

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