Re: [RFC PATCH 1/5] x86: Add cpu capability flag X86_FEATURE_TSC_S3_NOTSTOP

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Mon Jan 21 2013 - 10:58:18 EST


On 01/21/2013 01:59 AM, Feng Tang wrote:
>>>
>> We have an existed "TSC always running in C3+" feature and name it as
>> X86_FEATURE_NONSTOP_TSC, so how about naming it with the same style,
>> like X86_FEATURE_NONSTOP_TSC_S3?
>
> Yeah, actually I used a name X86_FEATURE_xxx_TSC, then I did a grep,
> and found there is no unified name convention for TSC, so I chose such
> a name.
>

I think NONSTOP_TSC_S3 is quite a bit more consistent than S3_NOTSTOP...

-hpa


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