“Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle” in dmesg on RHEL 6
Issue
With a 32bit Xeon processor that does not support the nonstop_tsc
feature, the use of C-states greater than C1 can cause TSC clock skew. In this case the kernel will disable the TSC clock in favor of the much slower acpi_pm
clock.
Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.3
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