Re: [PATCH RFC] x86, tsc: Allow for high latency in quick_pit_calibrate()

[Andy Lutomirski]

On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 21 May 2015, Adrian Hunter wrote:
>
>> If it takes longer than 12us to read the PIT counter lsb/msb,
>> then the error margin will never fall below 500ppm within 50ms,
>> and Fast TSC calibration will always fail.
>
> So finally the legacy PIT emulation takes longer than the 30 years old
> hardware implementation. Progress!
>
>> This patch detects when that will happen and switches to using
>> a slightly different algorithm that takes advantage of the PIT's
>> latch comand.
>
> Is there really no smarter way to figure out the TSC frequency on
> modern systems?

I just asked Len this question yesterday.  intel_pstate can do it,
although the algorithm is a bit gross.

--Andy

>
> Thanks,
>
>         tglx



-- 
Andy Lutomirski
AMA Capital Management, LLC
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