Re: Subject: PROBLEM: CPU accounting/scheduling regression in v4.6 CPU scheduling patchset?

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Jul 05 2016 - 04:13:50 EST


On Sun, Jul 03, 2016 at 05:24:11PM +0000, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> dmesg output:
> https://dump.v.panteleev.md/b8a3ba608a914a3d70667dad697dddfb/1467563818.log

[ 0.059350] smpboot: CPU0: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4960X CPU @ 3.60GHz (family: 0x6, model: 0x3e, stepping: 0x4)

...

[ 0.069372] x86: Booting SMP configuration:
[ 0.069375] .... node #0, CPUs: #1
[ 0.132420] TSC synchronization [CPU#0 -> CPU#1]:
[ 0.132427] Measured 170505122558937 cycles TSC warp between CPUs, turning off TSC clock.
[ 0.132435] tsc: Marking TSC unstable due to check_tsc_sync_source failed
[ 0.136636] #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 #11
[ 0.773136] x86: Booted up 1 node, 12 CPUs


How can TSC be borken on single socket IvyBridge !?