[NET]: Disable NET_SCH_CLK_CPU for SMP x86 hosts
Opterons with frequency scaling have fully unsynchronized TSCs
running at different frequencies, so using TSCs there is not a good idea.
Also some other x86 boxes have this problem. gettimeofday should be good
enough, so just disable it.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/sched/Kconfig b/net/sched/Kconfig
index 45d3bc0..81510da 100644
--- a/net/sched/Kconfig
+++ b/net/sched/Kconfig
@@ -72,9 +72,11 @@
Choose this if you need a high resolution clock source but can't use
the CPU's cycle counter.
+# don't allow on SMP x86 because they can have unsynchronized TSCs.
+# gettimeofday is a good alternative
config NET_SCH_CLK_CPU
bool "CPU cycle counter"
- depends on X86_TSC || X86_64 || ALPHA || SPARC64 || PPC64 || IA64
+ depends on ((X86_TSC || X86_64) && !SMP) || ALPHA || SPARC64 || PPC64 || IA64
help
Say Y here if you want to use the CPU's cycle counter as clock source.
This is a cheap and high resolution clock source, but on some