On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 01:15:47AM +0200, Ralf Baechle wrote: > On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 03:39:30PM -0700, Jun Sun wrote: > > > 1) clocks on different CPUs don't have the same frequency > > 2) clocks on different CPUs drift to each other > > 2) some fancy power saving feature such as frequency scaling > > > > But I think for a foreseeable future most MIPS SMP machines > > don't have the above issues (true?). And it is probably worthwile > > to synchronize count registers for them. > > 1) and 2) affect most SGI systems. > Assuming SGI systems represent the past of MIPS, we are still ok future-wise. :) Jun
