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

From: Adrian Hunter
Date: Mon Jul 06 2015 - 02:51:42 EST


On 22/06/15 16:14, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jun 2015, Adrian Hunter wrote:
>> On 03/06/15 19:23, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>> On Wed, 3 Jun 2015, Adrian Hunter wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 03/06/15 06:30, Andi Kleen wrote:
>>>>>> Then the changelog should say that I think. The current text says
>>>>>> "Fast TSC calibration will always fail", which, to me, suggests that
>>>>>> either the slow calibration will work or that the changelog message
>>>>>> should be changed.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ok. No, the slow calibration works I believe.
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, so the (only?) downside is the 50ms wasted on Fast TSC
>>>> calibration. What about this?
>>>
>>> I'm certainly happy to apply this one.
>>
>> George Spelvin began investigating improving quick_pit_calibrate() but Ingo
>> anyway suggested this patch as the first, so can this be applied?
>
> Oh, yes. I simply forgot to pick it up. Thanks for the reminder.

Sorry to bother you, but I don't still don't see the patch anywhere?

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