From: Dave Jones These messages are kinda silly.. CPU#0 had 0 usecs TSC skew, fixed it up. CPU#1 had 0 usecs TSC skew, fixed it up. inspired from: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=7713&action=view Signed-off-by: Dave Jones Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c | 4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c~avoid-printing-pointless-tsc-skew-msgs arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c --- devel/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c~avoid-printing-pointless-tsc-skew-msgs 2006-04-25 00:58:57.000000000 -0700 +++ devel-akpm/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c 2006-04-25 00:59:26.000000000 -0700 @@ -313,7 +313,9 @@ static void __init synchronize_tsc_bp (v if (tsc_values[i] < avg) realdelta = -realdelta; - printk(KERN_INFO "CPU#%d had %ld usecs TSC skew, fixed it up.\n", i, realdelta); + if (realdelta > 0) + printk(KERN_INFO "CPU#%d had %ld usecs TSC " + "skew, fixed it up.\n", i, realdelta); } sum += delta; _