Re:Overflowing timeout
by antonio2368 on Thursday July 15, 2021 @02:43AM
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> __rdtsc drift isn’t an AMD bug, it’s by design.
Yes, I should've emphasized this.
> hey probably just got lucky in that the drift always exceeded the time that elapsed between calls on other cpus
And this is also true. :D
But I would say we were lucky to notice this problem at all because it really doesn't happen on that many CPUs, at least on the ones we tried out.
Yes, I should've emphasized this.
> hey probably just got lucky in that the drift always exceeded the time that elapsed between calls on other cpus
And this is also true. :D But I would say we were lucky to notice this problem at all because it really doesn't happen on that many CPUs, at least on the ones we tried out.