Re: [Patch] Fix the possibility of insane return value of hpet_calibrate() against SMI.

[Yasunori Goto]

> >>> Each calibration of this has 1 milli second.
> >>> Do you think 5 msec is too long?
> >>>       
> >> This shouldn't matter when booting.  Anyway, I think it's possible to
> >> increase TICK_CALIBRATE without losing too much accuracy.
> >>     
> >
> > Hmm. If the person who is trying to reduce boot time for fastboot dislikes this impact,
> > then I'll try Vojtech-san's way.
> >   
> 
> That probably makes sense -- if it is extremely rare, and if you get two
> values that are the same (within some small delta) then you probably
> are 99.99% confident that you have the right data.

Ok. I'll make it.

Thanks for your comment.


-- 
Yasunori Goto 


--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/