Re: PROBLEM: E6850 has an 8+ minute delay during boot

[H. Peter Anvin]

Arun Thomas wrote:
> On Dec 14, 2007 2:01 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > The problem is caused by an SMI during the calibration routine. We
> > > really need to come up with a solid solution which does not rely on
> > > the periodic timer coming in, when there is something else (HPET,
> > > pm_timer) available.
> > How long is the SMI?
>
> Is there some instrumentation code somewhere which would allow me to
> determine this? If not, can you give me some hints on where to add the
> instrumentation code?

Well, the most obvious way to do it would be to run the calibration loop 
a large number of times, and observe the statistical variation.  In 
particular, one should see a bi- or multimodal pattern where the 
difference between the peaks amount to the "lost time".

When we have a clue about the loss of time then we can figure out how to 
detect it.

	-hpa
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