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Re: [opensuse] opensuse 10.2 cpu info wrong
  • From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:08:40 +0200 (CEST)
  • Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709271007470.30621@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

On Sep 27 2007 10:02, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>> Is it possible that there is a kernel-level 'race' here while it fetches 
>> information for each core? I.e. if frequency is changed due to whatever 
>> reason between two successive show_cpuinfo()? [Yes, it looks like]
>
>On AMD the cpus can have different speeds - the first core uses 1000
>MHz, the seconds 2000 Ghz,

Yes, but it may happen that both cores switch frequency (independent of
manufacturer) between two calls to show_cpuinfo().
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