Re: Different speed CPUs show up as same speed

Michael Graff <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.smp
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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Brett Lymn <[email protected]> writes:

> On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 12:57:36AM -0400, John Klos wrote:
> > 
> > So the issue is a little bug - the code that reports the speed of the
> > second CPU does not actually report the speed of the second CPU. Anyone
> > feel like checking this out?
> > 
> 
> Wow - differing CPU clock speeds.  In most MP setups I know about that
> would result in a lock up at some point in the future.

Not only that, but what if a program test for and uses CPU specific
instructions that only exist on one CPU?  Running a SMP machine with
non identical CPUs sounds wrong.

- --Michael
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