Re: [patch 13/19] GTOD: Mark TSC unusable for highres timers

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Fri Nov 10 2006 - 05:31:32 EST


On Friday 10 November 2006 11:28, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 06:10 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Very sad. This will make a lot of people unhappy, even to the point
> > where they might prefer disabling noidlehz over super slow gettimeofday.
> > I assume you at least have a suitable command line option for that, right?
> >
> > Can we get a summary on which systems the TSC is considered unstable?
>
> the part where it stops in idle...

That is handled by if (intel && C3 available) disable

-Andi
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