On 26/01/2013 12:58, Essay Tew Phaun wrote:
Forgot to mention. Valve responded to me directly that it could be related
to "rdtsc discrepancies"
Yeah, that's the timer thing. Presumably they think it may be going
forwards and backwards
on different cores?
Do they always use it though? There's ACPI, HPET and TSC, if not other
ways of getting timing.
No doubt your kernel config, your machine (as well as Valve's code) will
determine which
are available, enabled and which are used.
Looks like the kernel tries to figure out if the TSC is reliable or not
for itself :-
http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.38/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c#L859
--
Dan.
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