get_cyclecount(9) deprecation
Kostik Belousov
kostikbel at gmail.com
Fri Mar 18 13:56:52 UTC 2011
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 05:26:53PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
...
> - set cputicker() has some design bugs. It assumes that the tick frequency
> is the same across all CPUs, but the TSC is per-CPU. I have an old SMP
> system with CPUs of different frequency that can demonstrate bugs from
> this.
We definitely do not support configurations with different models of
CPUs in SMP, this is what Simmetric is about. Different as in frequency
or stepping.
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