TSC Timecounter and multi-core/SMP

[George V. Neville-Neil]

At Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:00:08 +0000,
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 
> In message <48080276.3040203 at elischer.org>, Julian Elischer writes:
> >David O'Brien wrote:
> >
> >> 
> >> The TSC on K8 is not invariant - its rate of change is affected by
> >> P-state changes.
> >> 
> >> The TSC on Greyhound (Family 10h) is invariant.
> >> [but as stated above, is not synced with other cores]
> >
> >You'd think that an invariant sync'd clock (fast to read) of some
> >type would have been done by someone by now.. The software people
> >have been asking for this for the last decade at least.
> 
> Actually one of the original design documents for SAGE stressed that
> such hardware were crucially important "for any system operating
> in real time", so yes, the HW people have had adequate notices.
> 

And, I suspect you mean SAGE as in Semi-Automatic Ground Environment:

http://history.sandiego.edu/GEN/20th/sage.html

and not the System Administrator's thing :-)

I'll bring some Geritol for us both to BSDCan.

Later,
George