Is the TSC timecounter safe on SMP system?

[David G. Lawrence]

> Can someone please elaborate on the acronym TSC ? 
> Please no comments about google etc been there done that and it wasn't useful.

   TSC is the Time Stamp Counter. It is a profiling counter internal to
modern Pentium processors that counts core frequency clock ticks.

-DG

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